• Title
  Item 03: Portrait of John Larking Scarvell, 1855 / oil painting by Richard Noble
• Creator
  Richard Noble, active 1828-1865
• Call number
  ML 1250
  Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 3, East Wall, no. 296
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  1855
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  910329
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 painting - oil - visible image 74.5 x 61.7 cm, in frame 94.0 x 81.5 cm
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  John Larking Scarvell (1791-1861), a captain in the East India Company and magistrate at Windsor, N.S.W., married Sarah Redmond at St James's Church, Sydney, in March 1828. John 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.
  
  His marriage to Sarah Redmond was his second marriage. John L. Scarvell married his first wife, Isabella Campbell, in England in February 1815. At the time of his marriage he was in the service of the East India Company as the captain of the ship 'Forbes'. They had a son, Henry Ramsay Scarvell (b. 1813?). Isabella died at sea on board the 'Phillip Dundas' and was buried in St Philip's Church, Sydney, in January 1828.
  
  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 John and Sarah Scarvell (1809-1873) (ML 1251), 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).
  
  John Larking Scarvell died in April 1861.
  
  References:
  Home was here / Mary Lang. Sydney : Library of Australian History, 1987.
  The Sydney Morning Herald, 16 April 1861. (Accessed on Trove at http://www.trove.nla.gov.au/ on 19 November 2010)
  The Morning Chronicle, 22 February, 1815 (Accessed on 19th Century British Library Newspapers at http://newspapers.bl.uk/ on 19 November 2010)
  Library correspondence files
• Scope and Content
  A framed portrait of John Larking Scarvell showing his face and upper body.
• 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 : 923829
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Signed and dated 'Richd. Noble 1855' at bottom left of portrait
• Conservation note
  
  Wooden frame, which matches the frame of the portrait of Sarah Scarvell, nee Redmond (ML 1251).
• Name
  Scarvell family
  
• Subject
  Art, Colonial--Australia.
  Portrait painting, Australian.
  Scarvell, John Larking, 1791-1861--Portraits
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  portraits
  birds
  magistrates
  ships' captains
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Paintings from the Collection - State Library of New South Wales (2018)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE222165

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