[Portrait of Ann Chapman, ca. 1844 / attributed to James Wilson]

ML 753

fonds

[ca. 1844]

Graphic Materials, Drawings

866607

Copy print : ML 753

1 drawing - pastel - oval-mounted, framed under glass 46 x 39 cm

Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Research notes available in Mitchell Library Reading Room , PXn 405

Information transferred from pictures card catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2008-2009

Original is unsigned and untitled.

Notes on Ann Chapman and her husband William Henry are at PXn 405.

Keyword subjects:
Chapman, Ann
Chapman, William Henry

This drawing is attributed to James Wilson as he produced a number of pastel portraits in the Macleay River district and is said to have married Ann Chapman's daughter.

Undated.

Dated by comparison with a portrait in oils of Ann Chapmans' daughter which is privately owned, but of which a photographic copy is held at Mitchell Library call no. PXA 2144/BOX 100/Item 37 Elizabeth Cheers and Frederick Henry Cheers.

Reference
Information provied by Annette Lemercier, October 2018.

Portrait was restored 1974