• Title
  [Harriott Blaxland, ca. 1840]
• Creator
  Maurice Felton, 1803-1842
• Call number
  ML 329
  Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 3, East Wall, no. 283
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1839 - 1842
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  447152
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 painting - 75 x 62.5 cm. (image) in frame 89 x 76 cm. - oil in frame
  
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Unsigned, untitled and undated
  Dating and stylistic comparison suggest that an attribution to Maurice Felton is feasible and likely. A portrait by him of Harriott Blaxland's daughter Anna Walker (ML 341), and a portrait, later attributed to Felton, of John Blaxland Jnr. (ML 423), were bequeathed with this painting. In the period between Felton's arrival in Sydney in late 1839 and his death in March 1842, Harriott Blaxland (b. 1777) would have been 62 to 65 years of age.
  Identified from a list of portraits in bequest of Alice O. Walker, 1936 (ML 416/1931: In-letters; ML 847-848/1936: Out-letters)
  Date derived from costume worn by the sitter. Evidence of overpainting in details of the dress may complicate date estimation
  Appears to be related to watercolour portrait P2/245, which bears a later inscription on the reverse identifying the subject as Harriott Blaxland
  A portrait of Mrs Blaxland is mentioned among paintings seen by Rev. John McGarvie in Augustus Earle's gallery in 1826 (Diary of Rev. J. McGarvie, ML A1322, p.235), but McGarvie later expresses doubt as to the artist of the portrait (see Buscombe, Eve, Artists in early Australia and their portraits: a guide to the portrait painters of early Australia ... Sydney : Eureka Research, 1979, p.25-26). An earlier ML picture restorer (1964) did not think that the brushwork in ML 329 is similar to that of the portrait of Capt. John Piper (ML 6) which is attributed to Earle
  
• Name
  Blaxland, Harriott, 1777-1852
  
• Subject
  Adult Females
  
• Topic
  headgear
  portraits
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Faces of Australia: image, reality and the portrait.
  Paintings from the Collection

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