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404700
  • Title
    Mrs [Anna Elizabeth] Walker, 1840 / Maurice Felton
  • Creator
  • Call number
    ML 341
    Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 3, East Wall, no. 282
  • Level of description
    fonds
  • Date

    1840
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    404700
  • Issue Copy
    Digitised
  • Physical Description
    1 painting - oil - 74.8 x 62.2 cm, inside frame 116.5 x 104 cm
  • ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

    A portrait of Anna Elizabeth (1804-1889), second daughter of John Blaxland, who emigrated with his family to NSW in 1807 and became one of the colony's largest land-holders and entrepreneurs in the colony. In 1823 Anna married Thomas Walker, who owned properties in NSW and northern Tasmania.
  • Copying Conditions
    Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
    Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
  • General note

    A non-contemporaneous handwritten note pasted on back of canvas reads, "Anna Elizabeth Walker, 2nd daughter of John Blaxland Esquire of Newington, Parramatta River - also late of Newington 2 Luddenham Court XX Kent - , married Thomas Walker - T [?]ACG - of Rhodes Parramatta River - also Rhodes Tasmania".

    Notes comparing this painting to other portraits thought to be by Felton are filed at PXn 349.
    Digital order no:a1528260
  • Signatures / Inscriptions

    Inscribed in paint on reverse "Mrs Walker painted by Maurice Felton Surgeon Sydney 1840"
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  • 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)
    The Artist and the patron - Art Gallery of New South Wales (February, 1988 - May, 1988)
    Paintings from the Collection - State Library of New South Wales (October, 2018 - )

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