Daguerreotype portraits of Sir James Martin and Isabella Martin, [between 1853? and 1860s?]

MIN 554

fonds

[between 1853? and 1860s?]

Graphic Materials, Photographs

9606326

2 photographs - hand-coloured daguerreotype - cased, 3.5 x 3.0 x 0.7 cm

Sir James Martin (1820-1886) was born in County Cork, Ireland, and emigrated to Australia with his parents a year after he was born. He was a prominent lawyer and politician, having held the offices of Premier (three times) and Chief Justice of New South Wales. He married Isabella Long (1832-1909) in 1853, and by the mid-1870s they had eight sons and seven daughters. Two of their children died in 1880-1881, and in 1882, Isabella moved from the family home in Rushcutters Bay to Vaucluse.
Reference:
Bede Nairn, 'Martin, Sir James (1820–1886)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/martin-sir-james-4161/text6679 (published first in hardcopy 1974, accessed online 25 November 2019).

By descent from Sir James Martin to his daughter Mary Martin (married Wilfrid Inman in 1897), then Inman family. Sold at Davidson auctions, Lot no. 687 on 25 February 2018.

Daguerreotype portraits of Sir James Martin and Isabella Martin, cased back-to-back in a double-sided metal oval spinner mount (spinner frame missing).

Out of copyright: Created before 1955