Portrait of Governor Macquarie by an unknown artist, related to that hanging in Windsor Court House in 1966 / probably after Read, Senior

DL 11

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Graphic Materials, Paintings

901398

Copy print : DL 11
Available on open access in the Mitchell Library Reading Room

1 painting - oil on hand-woven canvas - outside measurement of stretcher 48 x 38.2 cm

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

Research notes available in Mitchell Library Reading Room , PXn 93. Research notes available on request DL 11n.

Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2008-2009

Stretched and framed in a plain heavy wooden frame blackened.

The painting itself is very amateurish and looks like a copy.

This is an oil painting on a hand-woven canvas of the period 1810-1820, prepared in a very amateurish way with gesso which has formed a thick and brittle layer visible at one spot where the paint layer is damaged.

According to M. H. Ellis', 'Lachlan Macquarie', pp.591-593, the portrait in Windsor Court House cannot be of Macquarie.

For notes on the Macquarie portraits, including a note on the provenance of this portrait see notes at DL 11n (another copy at PXn 93).

Mr Ellis examined DL 10 and DL 11 on 6 Nov. 1964 and said they were not the experimental sketches he had seen at Sir William's home in 1949, which from memory were about 10 x 12 in. oils on wood, unframed and looked like 2 studies from 2 different angles. DL 10 and DL 11 however, seem to agree with the description of the 'sketches' he gives on p. 527 of his book.

Unsigned