• Title
  Sir Charles FitzRoy, ca. 1855 / by H. R. Smith
• Creator
  Henry Robinson Smith, active 1847-1865
• Call number
  ML 159
  Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 2, North Wall, no. 127
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1855
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  423928
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 painting - oil - 127 x 100.3 cm.
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Sir Charles Augustus FitzRoy was the tenth governor of New South Wales. During his term (1846-1855), FitzRoy was faced with the problems posed by gold discoveries, which were unprecedented in British colonial experience.
  
  Reference:
  Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol.1, 1788-1850. Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Press, 1966
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955.
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  Work is untitled. Title devised from further research provided by the Library for the publication `Reading the Rooms' in 2023.
• General note
  
  Previously titled, Governor Charles Augustus FitzRoy, ca. 1855 / oil painting by Henry Robinson Smith
  The painting is mentioned in Bells Life in Sydney on 27 January 1855 p.2.
  Smith offered the painting as a prize in an art union or raffle in 1856, where he valued it at 84 pounds: Sydney Morning Herald 13 May 1856 p.8.
  The donation of the portrait to the Free Public Library by Mrs J.G Raphael is noted in the Sydney Morning Herald of 3 March 1879 p.4
  The donation is also noted in the Sydney Free Public Library Annual Report for 1879-80 p.5.
  
  This portrait was painted a year after Governor FitzRoy received his knighthood. The medal of Knight Commander of the Bath (KCB) is displayed prominently on a scarlet ribbon that hangs around FitzRoy's neck.
  Date source: The dictionary of Australian artists / ed. Joan Kerr. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1992
  
  This painting is close to a daguerreotype photograph of Sir Charles A. FitzRoy with his aide-de-camp, ca. 1851, reproduced in Sierp, A., Colonial life in Tasmania : fifty years of photography, 1855-1905. Adelaide : Rigby, 1976. It is not known where the daguerreotype is held.
  Digital order no:a128371
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  H R Smith -- painted at lower left
• Date note
  
  Dated from Fitzroy's tenure as Governor of New South Wales
• Name
  FitzRoy, Charles Augustus, Sir, 1796-1858
  
• Subject
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  interiors
  Governors
  insignia
  knights
  military medals
  oil paintings
  portraits
  swords
  uniforms
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Pride of place - State Library of New South Wales (27 September - 29 November, 2004)
  Paintings from the Collection - State Library of New South Wales (October, 2018 - )

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