• Title
  Vice-Admiral John Hunter, second Governor of NSW 1795-1800 / painted ca 1813, by William Mineard Bennett
• Call number
  DG 394
  Status: On long term loan. Government House, Sydney.
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1813 or 1815
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  430430
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 painting - oil on canvas in gilt wooden frame - visible image 74 x 62 cm., in frame 77 x 64 cm.
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  John Hunter arrived in Australia in the First Fleet as second Captain of the Sirius under Governor Phillip. He succeeded Phillip as Governor of NSW from 1795-1800. Hunter was a noted naval officer who did much of the original survey of Sydney Harbour.
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Galleries, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Signed and dated at lower right-hand side (last digit of date obscured).
  
  A note on the history and purchase of the portrait, copies of 2 letters by Mrs W.A. Griffiths, mother of the previous owner, Captain G.B.K. Griffiths, and a photocopy of a photograph of the portrait (possibly one of those taken in 1948) are filed at Picture Source File - DG Pic.Acc.88
  
  Hunter's portrait was bequeathed by Hunter's niece Christian Maude [?] to her nephew Charles Maule Kerr, merchant of Leith, left by his will to his widow and after her death to pass to his nephew Captain George Kerr.
  
  Reference:
  Bonwick Transcripts, Biography, pp.668-9, A2000.
  
  George Cochrane Kerr bequeathed the inherited portrait to his daughter Mrs W.A. Griffiths.
  
  Reference:
  Some notes on the family of Admiral John Hunter, A 3102
  Digital order no:Album ID : 843723
• Name
  Hunter, John, 1737-1821
  
• Subject
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  interiors
  picture frames
  portraits
  uniforms
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Matthew Flinders : The Ultimate Voyage - State Library of New South Wales
  Government House, Sydney - Government House (Sydney, N.S.W.) (May 2004 - June 2014).

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