• Title
  [Thomas Ware Smart and his wife, ca. 1857-1858]
• Call number
  MIN 400
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1857-1858
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  439958
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Photographs - 2, 1/4 plate ambrotypes in pinchbeck frames, inside velvet-lined leather case - visible image 9 x 6.5 cm, case 12 x 9.6 x 2.5 cm (closed)
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Thomas Ware Smart was born in Sydney, the son of a convict bootmaker Thomas Smart. After successfully setting himself up as an auctioneer and estate agent in 1836, he branched into other activities such as banking and flour milling. He married Mary Anne (nee Kenyon) in 1842 and was appointed a magistrate in 1845. A self-made man, Smart was a successful businessman and associate of T. S. Mort, a founding Director of a number of companies, Colonial Treasurer and Secretary for Public Works, 1863-1866. He lived in a regency mansion Mona, Darling Point, where he opened a valuable picture gallery to the public in 1861.
  Reference: Australian Dictionary of Biography, Vol.6. Vic. : Melbourne University Press, 1976
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• General note
  
  These seated portraits were probably taken by an English photographer, while the couple were in England between 1855-1859.
  Digital order no:Album ID : 852935
• Name
  Smart, Thomas Ware, 1810-1881
  
• Subject
  Adult Females
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  businesspeople
  politicians
  portraits
  wives
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1015838

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