• Title
  Portrait of George William Evans, [1847] / Thomas James Lempriere
• Creator
  Thomas James Lempriere, 1796-1852
• Call number
  ML 33
  Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 2, West Wall, no. 111
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  [1847]
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  447385
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 painting - oil inside oval mount - image 29.6 cm. x 22.5, inside mount 64 cm. x 53.7 cm.
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Thomas James Lempriere was born in Hamburg in 1796 and came to Van Diemen's Land in 1822. He joined the Commissariat Department and remained in its employ until his death. Lempriere's surviving diaries held in ML record his Tasmanian life, including his artistic endeavours and other interests such as natural history and meteorology. He began painting relatively late in life, portraiture being foremost among several genres he undertook. In 1826 Lempriere's daughter, Lucy Parris, married George William Evans, the subject of this portrait, becoming his second wife.
  
  Reference:
  Kerr, J. (ed.),The Dictionary of Australian artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1992; Australian Dictionary of Biography, 1788-1850, vol. 2
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Original held by
  A reproduction of this portrait, and a description of the painting naming Lempriere as the artist, is in T[urpin?], E.J., "The father of Australian explorers", New Zealand Illustrated Magazine, Apr 1904, p.47
• Description source
  
  Titled on label pasted to backing, which also contains biographical details about Evans. Photograph of label is held at PXn 303
• General note
  
  Digital order no:a928765
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Unsigned
• Date note
  
  Dated from references in Lempriere's diary, 1847-9 (ML MSS A3343, part 2, pp.29-32; entries for Oct 19, 27 and Nov 6, 16, 1847), which are extracted at PXn 303
• Name
  Evans, George William, 1780-1852
  
• Subject
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  portraits
  explorers
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Men and maps in Australia - State Library of New South Wales
  The Governor : Lachlan Macquarie, 1810 to 1821 (Travelling exhibition) - State Library of New South Wales (November, 2010 - March, 2012)
  Crossing the Blue Mountains - State Library of New South Wales (May, 2013 - August, 2013)
  Paintings from the Collection - State Library of New South Wales (October, 2018 - )

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