• Title
  [Chs. Tompson, Esqur. Clydesdale], 1836 / R. Read
• Creator
  Richard Read, 1796-1862
• Call number
  DG P2/55
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1836
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  457603
• Physical Description
  Drawings - 1 watercolour - 34 x 27 cm.
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Charles Tompson was convicted at Warwick, England, in March 1802. He arrived in Sydney in the Coromandel in May 1804, and for four years was employed in the office of Commissary Palmer. Later he kept a shop at the corner of Pitt and Hunter Streets and about 1819 bought a 700-acre (283 ha) farm, Clydesdale, near Windsor. He was the father of the poet Charles Tompson (1807-1883). He married Elizabeth Boggis in 1806 and after her death in March 1822 married Jane Armytage -- Source: Australian Dictionary of Biography (Online)
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Galleries, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Titled on back of work.
  This work was previously believed to be that of Charles Tompson, Jnr the poet. For notes on the identity of the sitter and copy of inscription on the back of portrait see PXn 142
  This portrait forms a pair with `Mrs Jane Tompson. Aged 42. / Clydesdale at DG P2/56
  Frame at F239
  Digital order no:a1528442
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Signed and dated `Painted by R. Read 45 Pitt Street Sydney New South Wales, Novr. 1836' on back in ink.
• Name
  Tompson, Charles, 1784?-1871
  
• Subject
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  portraits
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3241442

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