• Title
  [Colonial family portrait, ca. 1860s / watercolour by] / R. Grindell
• Creator
  R. Grindell, active 1863-
• Call number
  V/99
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1860s
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  440394
• Physical Description
  Drawings - 1 watercolour drawing - 46.3 x 55.7 cm.
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Little is known about R. Grindell, he appears to have been an itinerant watercolour artist in the 1860s. Grindell painted views of Wallace's property, Eunonyhareenyha, Wagga Wagga, c. 1863 (Private collection) and a portrait of Aubrey and Hubert Murray (sons of Terence Aubrey Murray) at Winderradeen, Canberra district, in 1863 (National Library of Australia. PIC 6555).
  Reference: The Dictionary of Australian artists : painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870 / edited by Joan Kerr. Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1992.
• Scope and Content
  Full length unknown family group portrait, showing adult male and female, a young woman and five children, one holding a cricket bat, with landscape view.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955.
• General note
  
  By the 1860s this sort of image is very rare in colonial portraiture, photography had largely undermined formal portraiture except at the upper end of the market. The awkward composition of this work suggests it may have been taken from a series of photographic portraits. -- Curator's notes, May 2004
  Digital order no:a128870
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Signed at lower right
• Subject
  Art, Colonial--Australia.
  Adult Females
  Adult Males
  children
  
• Topic
  children
  colonial art
  families
  groups (people)
  leisure
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3210660

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