• Title
  Mrs Sophia Wiseman / Charles Rodius
• Creator
  Charles Rodius, 1802-1860
• Call number
  MIN 583
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1833
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  9676329
• Physical Description
  1 watercolour - 700 x 500 mm (sight); 15 x 12 cm (framed) - on ivory
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Charles Rodius (sometimes spelled Rhodius) was born in 1802 in Cologne, Germany, though was likely of French descent. He moved to England and, in 1829, was convicted of theft and sentenced to transportation for seven years, arriving in New South Wales in December 1829. He was assigned to the Department of Public Works where he worked as an unpaid drawing instructor and draughtsman of Colony buildings. In July 1841 he was granted a certificate of freedom. His portraits had been published from 1831 and were exhibited for the Society for the Promotion of the Fine Arts in Australia in 1847, 1849 and 1857, allowing him to make a fair living as an artist and art teacher. He died from complications of a stroke on 9 April 1860 in Liverpool, Sydney.
  
  Source:
  Australian Dictionary of Biography. "Charles Rodius". Accessed 18 December 2023. https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/rodius-charles-2599
• Collection history
  From a private collection in Ireland prior to purchase by Bruce Kerr and Janet Matthews in 2003.
• Scope and Content
  Watercolour on ivory miniature portrait in original black lacquer frame by Charles Rodius of Mrs Sophia Wiseman (nee Warner, nee Williams), wife of Solomon Wiseman for whom the town of Wiseman's Ferry in New South Wales is named.
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  Subject identified by annotation, likely by artist, on verso of portrait backing paper.
• Date note
  
  Signed and dated "C Rodius; 1833" in lower right corner.
• Subject
  Wiseman, Sophia, 1780?-1870
  Portraits--New South Wales--19th century.
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE20851825

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