• Title
  [Portrait of Phillip Parker King, ca. 1817]
• Call number
  ML 1318
  Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 2, West Wall, no. 113
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  [ca. 1817]
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  1055153
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 painting - oil on canvas, laid on board - visible image 26 x 21 cm., in frame 34 x 29 cm
  
• Collection history
  Descent from Phillip Parker King through King family to donors
• Scope and Content
  Portrait of Philip Parker King in gilt frame depicting the sitter in a black coat with a white cravat.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  A larger portrait of Phillip Parker King (at call number ML 11) depicts King in the same pose in a jacket with brass buttons and a gold epaulette on his right shoulder. The similarities between the two paintings suggest that the larger portrait was probably modelled on this work.
  
  Reference:
  Library correspondence file
  Digital order no:Album ID : 1214144
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Unsigned
• Date note
  
  Possibly painted around the time of King's marriage to Harriet Lethbridge and his departure to Australia in 1817.
  
  Reference:
  Library correspondence file
• Name
  King, Phillip Parker, 1791-1856
  
• Subject
  King, Phillip Parker, 1791-1856--Portraits
  Adult Males
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Paintings from the Collection - State Library of New South Wales (2018)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE9327540

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