• Title
  [Philip Gidley and Anna Josepha King, and their children Elizabeth, Anna Maria and Phillip Parker] / watercolour portrait by Robert Dighton
• Creator
  Robert Dighton, 1752-1814
• Call number
  ML 1244
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1799
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  421697
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 drawing - watercolour - 23.5 x 34.5 cm
  
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  From left to right: Anna Josepha, Elizabeth, Anna Maria, Phillip Parker and Philip Gidley King
  Both Anna Maria and Phillip Parker King were born on Norfolk Island, Phillip in 1791 and Anna Maria in 1793.
  Robert Dighton painted this portrait of the King family in England in the year Philip, his wife Anna Josepha and their youngest child Elizabeth left for NSW, where King had been appointed Governor. The Kings did not see Anna Maria or Phillip Parker again, until 1807 when they returned to England from the colony.
  Dighton was regularly commissioned to paint portraits of military families. It appears to have been common practice for officers departing for overseas service to have a portrait painted. Family portraits are less common.
  Digital order no:a128201
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Signed and dated at lower right "RD[as monogram]ighton 1799"
• Name
  King, Anna Josepha, 1765-1844
  King family
  King, Philip Gidley, 1758-1808
  King, Phillip Parker, 1791-1856
  Macarthur, Anna Maria, 1793-1852
  Runciman, Elizabeth, 1797-1856
  
• Subject
  boys
  Adult Males
  Adult Females
  girls
  
• Topic
  families
  groups (people)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  King Family exhibition and reunion - Old Government House (Parramatta, N.S.W.) (7 October - 4 November, 2000)

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