• Title
  Sir Joseph Banks, ca.1808-1809 / painted by Thomas Phillips
• Creator
  Thomas Phillips, 1770-1845.
• Call number
  DG 25
  Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 2, West Wall, no. 117
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca.1808-1809
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  440051
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 painting - oil, gilt framed, glass fronted - 141 x 110 cm. inside frame measuring 178 x 146 cm.
  
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Galleries, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Unsigned. Undated. Titled from frame label.
  The painting was exhibited in the 1809 London Royal Academy exhibition. The Morning Chronicle of 29 April 1809 described it as an "incomparable picture [which] will establish his reputation in the art." The Examiner of 11 June 1809 described it "as one of the best portraits ever produced in England without excepting even those from Vandyke."
  The portrait was purchased by William Dixson in 1929 from Capt. Knatchbull-Hugessen. It was painted to the order of Don Jose de Mendoza y Rios, a Spanish scholar and FRS, as a presentation to Banks. An engraving by Schiavonetti was made from this. After Lady Banks' death the portrait came into the possession of the Knatchbull-Hugessen family. A replica of the portrait was painted for Mendoza and by him bequeathed to the Royal Society. A copy of the portrait was made to the order of Capt. Knatchbull-Hugessen in 1929. Royal permission for dedication of the Schiavonetti engraving of this protrait was granted July 1809. In the engraving Banks is holding a paper on the back of which are the words "The Bakerian lecture for 1808 by Humphrey Davy, FRS". Source: ML cat cards
  Notes on this portrait and other portraits by Phillips are at Pxn 171, 173, 174
  See also Harold B Carter, Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820) A guide to biographical and bibliographical sources, St Paul's Bibliographies in assocation with British Museum (Natural History), 1987, pp. 301-303.
  Photographic copy held at P2/57
  Digital order no:a051001
• Name
  Banks, Joseph, Sir, 1743-1820
  
• Subject
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  interiors
  botanists
  naturalists
  portraits
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Captain Cook, R. N., the resolute mariner: an international record of oceanic discovery - Oregon Historical Society (7 January, 1974 - 1 January, 1975)
  Possessed : an exhibition of treasures - State Library of New South Wales (March, 1997 - June, 1997)
  Paintings from the Collection - State Library of New South Wales (October, 2018 - )

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