• Title
  [Captain John Piper, ca. 1826 / oil painting by Augustus Earle]
• Creator
  Augustus Earle, 1793-1838
• Call number
  ML 6
  Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 3, South Wall, no. 302
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1826
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  404667
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 painting - oil on canvas, housed in late 1980s reproduction frame - 192.5 x 120.5 cm
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  John Piper, military officer and public servant, was born in 1773 in Scotland. He arrived in Sydney in 1792 to serve as an ensign in the New South Wales Corps before transferring to Norfolk Island (1793-1795). In 1795 John Piper returned to the mainland being promoted to lieutenant and was appointed Captain in 1800. Piper served a second term on Norfolk Island from 1804-1810.
  
  Reference:
  Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol.2, 1788-1850. Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Press, 1967
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  The work was stated as being by Earle when shown at the Society of Fine Arts Australian exhibition in 1847 (see PXn 316).
  
  Reference:
  Sydney Morning Herald, 7 July 1847, p.3, column 1
  Digital order no:Album ID : 1063825
• Name
  Piper, John, 1773-1851
  
• Subject
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  colonial art
  portraits
  public servants
  uniforms
  
• Place
  Henrietta Villa (Point Piper, N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Faces of Australia: image, reality and the portrait. - State Library of New South Wales (25 May - 12 October, 1992)
  The Picture Gallery 1 - State Library of New South Wales (February, 1999 - November, 1999)
  Private Lives: Families of N.S.W. - State Library of New South Wales (January, 2001 - February, 2002)
  For Auld Lang Syne: Images of Scottish Australia from First Fleet to Federation - Art Gallery of Ballarat
  Paintings from the Collection - State Library of New South Wales (October, 2018 - )

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