• Title
  Sophia O'Brien, 1841 / Maurice Felton
• Creator
  Maurice Felton, 1803-1842
• Call number
  DG 427
  Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 3, North Wall, no. 264
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1841
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  839852
• Physical Description
  1 painting - oil - 91.5 x 71 cm
  
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Galleries, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  Information transferred from pictures card catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2008-2009
• General note
  
  Sophia O'Brien died in February 1841 - according to the Sydney Herald of 23 September 1841 p.2 this portrait was drawn 'partly from a cast taken after her death, and partly from an engraving said to resemble her.'
  Keyword subjects:
  O'Brien, Sophia
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Unsigned. Note in ink on verso of decorative mount, since discarded, stated that painting was by Felton, a surgeon in Sydney in 1841. Untitled.
• Conservation note
  
  Painting was extensively restored by Conservator upon its arrival in Mitchell Library September 1975
• Subject
  Art, Colonial--Australia.
  Adult Females
  
• Topic
  portraits
  death masks
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Paintings from the Collection - State Library of New South Wales (2018)

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