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Title
Queen Victoria, 1841 / oil portrait by Maurice Felton
Creator
Maurice Felton, 1803-1842
Call number
ML 992
Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 3, North Wall, no. 263
Level of description
fonds
Date

1841
Type of material
Graphic Materials, Paintings
Reference code
404734
Issue Copy
Digitised
Physical Description
1 painting - oil - 89 x 69 cm
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955<br>
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
General note

This portrait is a copy of Thomas Sully's (an American artist) portrait of Queen Victoria, painted in 1838, and from which an engraving was published in 1840. Felton offered this painting in an art union - or raffle - he organised in October 1841 cf. "The Australian" 7 October 1841
Digital order no:202542
Signatures / Inscriptions

Inscribed in paint on reverse "Victoria 1st / pain[ted] by Mr. Felton / Surgeon [?] Sydney / August 1841 No.1"
Name
Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901
Subject
Adult Females
Topic
colonial art
portraits
royal family (Great Britain)
Exhibited in

Possessed : an exhibition of treasures - State Library of New South Wales (4 March - 29 June, 1997)
Faces of Australia: image, reality and the portrait. - State Library of New South Wales (May, 1992 - October, 1992)
Paintings from the Collection - State Library of New South Wales (October, 2018 - )
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