• Title
  View of Mr Slaneys House, Norfolk Island, Lat. 29 1 - South Long. 168 East, ca. 1800 / oil painting attributed to English Naive School
• Call number
  ML 1254
  Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 2, East Wall, no. 160
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1800
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  913066
• Physical Description
  1 painting - oil on canvas - visible image 46.5 x 62.0 cm, in frame 56.0 x 71.5 cm
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Richard Slaney (c. 1764-) was sentenced to fourteen years transportation at the Stafford Assizes in 1784. He was later sent to the Thames hulk 'Censor', age given as 20, before being transported to N.S.W. on board the 'Neptune'. Five weeks after arriving in the colony Slaney was among 194 convicts sent to Norfolk Island, arriving on 7 August 1790.
  
  From early 1791 Slaney was allowed to cultivate a small piece of land near Sydney Town, the island's main settlement. By 1 July he had 2 acres 30 rods, and in 1792 was allowed an additional 4 acres of land. During this period he was living with Elizabeth Baker, a convict, whom he may have married in November 1791. He was still on Norfolk Island in 1796 when he was farming 60 acres. He may have left Norfolk Island some time between 1797 and 1801. The establishment of a charity in Slaney's name in Lichfield in 1827 suggests he returned to England.
  
  References:
  The Second Fleet : Britain's grim convict armada of 1790 / by Michael Flynn. North Sydney, N.S.W. : Library of Australian History, 2001.
  Bonhams London, Sale 17849, Travel and Exploration, 15 September 2010, Lot 15. http://www.bonhams.com (accessed 1 September 2010)
• Scope and Content
  A framed oil painting showing the front view of a fenced house. In the foreground is depicted two horses being led by grooms or servants; goats; and a gentleman in riding clothes with a dog.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  Title taken from painting
• Attributions / conjectures
  
  Dated and attributed to English Naive School by Bonhams.
  
  Reference:
  Bonhams London, Sale 17849, Travel and Exploration, 15 September 2010, Lot 15. http://www.bonhams.com (accessed 1 September 2010)
• Name
  Slaney, Richard
  
• Subject
  Norfolk Island--Buildings, structures, etc--Pictorial works
  Dwellings--Norfolk Island--Pictorial works
  Painting, English
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  oil paintings
  goats
  horses
  chimneys
  fences
  servants
  grooms (horses)
  houses
  dogs
  
• Place
  Norfolk Island
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Paintings from the Collection - State Library of New South Wales (2018)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE9469790

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