• Title
  Item 04: Portrait of Sarah Scarvell, nee Redmond, 1855 / oil painting by Richard Noble
• Creator
  Richard Noble, active 1828-1865
• Call number
  ML 1251
  Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 3, East Wall, no. 297
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  1855
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  910328
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 painting - oil - visible image 73.3 x 60.8 cm, in frame 93.3 x 81.0 cm
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Sarah Scarvell, nee Redmond (1809-1873), was born in Sydney, N.S.W., the second daughter of emancipists Edward Redmond (1766?-1840) and Winefred Redmond, nee Dowling (1775?-1861). Winefred married Edward Redmond, her second husband, in 1811. They had two daughters, Mary (b. 1807) and Sarah. Winefred's son from her first marriage Jean de Riveau (b. 1803) became known as John Redmond.
  
  Sarah married Captain John Larking Scarvell (1791-1861) at St James's Church, Sydney, in March 1828. It was the second marriage for Captain Scarvell. His first wife, Isabella (nee Campbell), had died at sea and was buried in St Philip's Church, Sydney, in January 1828. Captain Scarvell retired from the East India Company shortly after his marriage to Sarah and they resided at Clare House (Killarney), in Oakville, N.S.W.. They had ten children, of whom eight survived infancy.
  
  In 1855 John Scarvell commissioned artist Richard Noble to paint individual portraits of his family. Over the course of the year while residing at Clare House, Noble completed portraits of Sarah and John Larking Scarvell (ML 1250), and the six eldest Scarvell children: John Redmond Barnes (1830-1855) (ML 1194); Sidney (1832-1875); George (1834-1877); Edward Augustus (1835-1883); Sarah Winefred Isabella Mary (1837-1929) (ML 1339); and Elizabeth Mary (1840-1907) (ML 1195).
  
  Sarah Scarvell died in July 1873 at her residence Leswell, in Edgecliff Road, aged 64 years.
  
  References:
  Home was here / Mary Lang. Sydney : Library of Australian History, 1987.
  The Sydney Morning Herald, 28 July 1873. Accessed on Trove at http://www.trove.nla.gov.au/ on 19 November 2010
  Library correspondence file
• Scope and Content
  A framed portrait of Sarah Scarvell, nee Redmond, showing her face and upper body. Her left hand rests on an open book and she is dressed in a dark two-piece dress with a broderie anglaise and lace under-bodice. The front panel of the under-bodice is attached at the neck with a diamond brooch
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1995.
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Digital order no:Album ID : 923832
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Signed and dated 'Richd. Noble 1855' at bottom right of portrait
• Conservation note
  
  Wooden frame, which matches the frame of the portrait of John Larking Scarvell (ML 1250), has been over-painted. Unclear if it is the original frame.
• Name
  Scarvell family
  
• Subject
  Brooches.
  Art, Colonial--Australia.
  Scarvell, Sarah, 1809-1873--Portraits
  Portrait painting, Australian.
  Adult Females
  
• Topic
  portraits
  lace
  jewellery
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Paintings from the Collection - State Library of New South Wales (2018)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE200939

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