• Title
  Commissioner Henry Bingham [with white horse, 1840s] / [oil painting attributed to Thomas Balcombe]
• Creator
  T. (Thomas) Balcombe, 1810-1861
• Call number
  ML 632
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1840s?
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  442700
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 painting - oil - in gilt frame with oval mount, 50 x 50 cm
  
• Collection history
  On long term loan 27 August 1968
• Appraisal Note
  Reframed in 2007 for display, old frame discarded March 2009.
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Finding Aids
  Research notes available in Mitchell Library Reading Room , PXn 148 -
• Description source
  
  Titled from handwritten label affixed to reverse.
• General note
  
  Notes about Bingham's descendants are written on label affixed to reverse, in a different hand.
  Digital order no:Album ID : 866920
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Commissioner Henry Bingham / Born 1798 Died August 1852 at Gocup Tumut / Portrait in oils / attributed to Conrad Martens -- handwritten on label affixed to reverse
• Attributions / conjectures
  
  Previously attributed to Conrad Martens by John Young see letter held at PXn 148. After an assessment by Keith R. Binney it is believed to have been painted by Thomas Balcombe. This work has been compared to his similar works including one held in the Mitchell Library `Mr E.H. Hargraves, the gold discoverer of Australia, Feb 12th 1851' at ML 532 .
• Date note
  
  No date
• Conservation note
  
  Some cracks and chips on mouldings and frame
• Name
  Bingham, Henry, 1798-1852
  
• Subject
  Art, Colonial--Australia.
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  horseriders
  horses
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Equinity - State Library of New South Wales (15 October - 10 December, 2007)

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