• Title
  John Redmond Barnes Scarvell, 1855 / oil portrait by Richard Noble
• Creator
  Richard Noble, active 1828-1865
• Call number
  ML 1194
  Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 3, East Wall, no. 298
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1855
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  395474
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 painting - oil on canvas, in gesso and gilt frame - 76 x 63.5 cm canvas; 95.5 x 83.5 cm frame
  
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Eight portraits by Richard Noble of the Scarvell family have been documented - see Eve Buscombe, Artists in Early Australia and their portraits, Eureka Research, 1978
  For biographical information about the Scarvell family see Mary Lang, Home was here, Library of Australian History, Sydney, 1987
  Colour transparency digitised 1999
  Digital order no:Album ID : 950051
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Inscribed in paint at lower left "Rich Noble 1855"
  On the reverse is a frame maker's label "S. Holden Picture Restorer + Frame Maker 71 Hunter Street Sydney"
• Conservation note
  
  Oil painting and frame conserved with the generous support of the State Library of New South Wales Foundation, 2001-2002.
• Name
  Scarvell, John Redmond Barnes, 1830-1855
  
• Subject
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  colonial art
  portraits
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Paintings from the Collection - State Library of New South Wales (2018)

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