• Title
  Landing in Bounty Bay, approximately 1830 / attributed to Richard Brydges Beechey
• Creator
  Richard Brydges Beechey, 1808-1895
• Call number
  ML 114
  Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 2, East Wall, no. 162
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  approximately 1830
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  836712
• Issue Copy
  Copy print : ML 114
  Available on open access in the Mitchell Library Reading Room
• Physical Description
  1 painting - oil - 29 5/8 x 44 5/8 in. inside frame
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  This painting depicts the landing of the crew of the Blossom on Pitcairn Island in December 1825... The commander of the Blossom was Frederick William Beechey. His brother, Richard Brydges Beechey was also aboard as midshipman. In his account of the voyage, Narrative of a voyage to the Pacific and the Beering's Strait (1831), Frederick acknowledged his brother's devotion of leisure time to drawing". This painting is most likely based on the engraving, Landing in Bounty Bay, published in Narrative of a voyage .. and itself based on an original drawing by Frederick. Because of this acknowledgment of the original drawing as its source the painting itself has in the past also been attributed to Frederick. The artist is, however more likely to be Frederick's brother Richard. While Richard similarly pursued a career in the Navy he also became a successful and skilled maritime artist. There is no evidence that Frederick painted in oils, whilst from the 1830s to the 1880s Richard was exhibiting oil paintings in London's Royal Academy of Arts.
  
  Reference:
  Reading the rooms : behind the paintings of the State Library of NSW / edited by Richard Neville and Rachel Franks/
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2008-2009
• General note
  
  Previously titled, Landing in Bounty Bay, 1825? / Frederick William Beechey
• Attributions / conjectures
  
  Work is unsigned. Attributed to Richard Brydges Beechey from further research provided by the Library for the publication `Reading the Rooms' in 2023.
• Date note
  
  No date. Date based on time of Richard exhibiting in London from the 1830s at the London's Royal Academy of Arts, British Institution and Society of Artists
• Place
  Bounty Bay
  Pitcairn Island.
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Paintings from the Collection - State Library of New South Wales (2018)

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