• Title
  The Hon. George Allen, 1800-1877 / [attributed to J. Anderson]
• Creator
  James Anderson, active 1852-1877
• Call number
  ML 1241
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  [ca. 1860s]
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  421683
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Paintings - 1 oil Paintings - visible image 91.7 x 72.5 cm., in frame 115.5 x 96.1 cm.
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  George Allen (1800-1877), solicitor and founder of the oldest legal firm in Australia, married Jane Bowden, daughter of schoolmaster, Thomas Bowden, on 24 July 1823. The family, of which ten children survived, lived at Toxeth Park, Glebe. The eldest son Sir George Wigram Allen (1824-1885) was a partner and successor in the legal firm.
  
  Reference:
  Australian Dictionary of Biography, 1788-1850, Vol.1
• Scope and Content
  Seated half-length portrait
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Probably painted at the same time as the companion portrait of Jane Allen by J. Anderson in 1867
  
  Not in original frame, reframed ca. 1960s
  
  Related material: The Mitchell Library holds various papers and pictorial material relating to George Allen and the Allen family including: George Allen journals, 1819-1875 (MLMSS 477)
  Digital order no:Album ID : 949998
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Title on label attached to frame at lower edge
• Name
  Allen family
  Allen, George, 1800-1877
  George Allen (Solicitor)
  
• Subject
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  legal profession
  portraits
  solicitors
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1015738

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