• Title
  Jeffrey Hart Bent, ca. 1814 - silhouette portrait
• Call number
  MIN 107
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1814
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  442554
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Drawings - 1 bronzed silhouette on clay stored in black wooden rectangular frame with oval window at front covered in glass and raised gilt metal rim. At the centre top of frame is a clasp in the shape of a leaf with two rings for hanging - 7.9 x 6.5 cm. (image, sight) ; 15.2 x 12.3 cm. (frame, including loops)
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Jeffery Hart Bent was appointed to the position of judge of the Supreme Court of Civil Judicature in February 1814 and nominated W.H. Moore and Frederick Garling [senior] as attorneys to practise before him. J.H. Bent came into conflict with Governor Lachlan Macquarie over the establishment, opening, and functioning of the court.
  
  Reference:
  Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol.1, 1788-1850. Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Press, 1966
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright
• General note
  
  Digital order no:Album ID : 877494
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Titled and dated from handwritten ink inscription on backing paper, "The / nineteenth of / February 1814, at / half past three o,clock / in the morning - my Dr. / Son Jeffrey Hart Bent / Left his afflicted, Father / his sister Ellen, & myself, / at Molsey - to go to Ports / -mouth to embark for N.S.W. / as chief Justice of his Majestys / court of civil Judicure / As a true friend Mr Reeve / accompanied him - to / Chear & comfort him / of his journey. What shall comfort us? / This likeness was his / gift and a treasure / to H.B."
• Name
  Bent family
  Bent, Jeffery Hart, 1781-1852
  
• Subject
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  picture frames
  portraits
  silhouettes
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Faces of Australia: image, reality and the portrait. - State Library of New South Wales (25 May - 12 October, 1992)
  The Governor: Lachlan Macquarie, 1810 to 1821 - State Library of New South Wales (July, 2010 - October, 2010)

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