• Title
  [Edward Samuel Pickard Bedford, ca. 1840s - portrait by Thomas Bock]
• Creator
  Thomas Bock, 1793-1855
• Call number
  P2/136
  
• Level of description
  series
• Date
  
  ca. 1840s
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  441658
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Drawings - 1 crayon drawing backed onto canvas - 28 x 22.9 cm.
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  The second son of William Bedford and Martha (nee Pickett), Edward Samuel Pickard Bedford was a surgeon and politician. After the family migrated to Hobart Town from England in 1823, Bedford operated a private practice and held various medical positions including assistant to the Colonial Surgeon (1829), commissioner in lunacy (1856), as well as founding St Mary's hospital in Campbell Street. In addition to his medical career, Bedford had diverse interests being elected to the Legislative Council of 1856, and publishing a paper on Australian zoology, and collector of art. In 1863 he migrated to Sydney where his sister, Eleanor Stephen (wife of Sir Alfred Stephen) lived. Bedford married Mary Selby of Wilmington Kent in 1832.
  
  Reference:
  Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol.3, 1851-1890. Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Press, 1979
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  On the reverse of the canvas are framing notes in pencil and remnants of newspaper that was used in the original framing process.
  The original mount board was removed by SLNSW Preservation Branch in 1987 and is stored with the portrait.
  The donor stated that family tradition believed the artist to be Thomas Griffiths Wainewright. The drawing has been subsequently attributed to Thomas Bock. Notes supporting attribution to Bock are located at PXn 765.
  Digital order no:a128875
• Name
  Bedford, Edward Samuel Pickard, 1809-1876
  
• Topic
  doctors (medical)
  portraits
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Elegance in exile - National Portrait Gallery (Australia) (1 June - 26 August, 2012)

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