Title:
Portrait of Isabella Lewis.
Author/Creator:
Production:
[Tasmania] : [attributed to Thomas Bock], [between 1824 and 1855]
Physical description:
1 drawing : pencil, crayon, charcoal & chalk on tinted paper ; 50 x 36 cm. (framed).
Medium:
paper; pencil; crayon; charcoal; chalk
Format:
picture
image (online)
Provenance:
From the collection of Henry Allport.
Accession number:
HA942
Notes:
Title assigned by Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts.
Unsigned and undated ; attributed to Thomas Bock.
Contemporary wood veneer frame, gold slip.
Identification of sitter confirmed with acquisition of Lewis Family Bock portraits of Isabella Lewis.
Exhibited in: 'Thomas Bock : convict engraver, society portraitist' QVMAG, Launceston, February - April, 1991 ; TMAG, Hobart, April - June, 1991.
History note:
Isabella Lewis was born in New South Wales in 1798, the daughter of Captain Neil MacKellar of the New South Wales Corps and Sarah Cooley. She arrived in Van Diemen's Land in 1816, on the occasion of her marriage to Richard Lewis, an auctioneer and merchant who arrived in Hobart Town in 1815. Richard Lewis founded a commercial and shipping business later known as R. Lewis & Sons.
Indexed in:
Bock portfolio; No. 6.
Thomas Bock, convict engraver, society portraitist : exhibition and catalogue, [1991], cat. no. 74.
Condition:
Condition on review: 20/2/1997: Dirt, creasing.
Form of work:
Drawing
Alternate Title:
Former title: Portrait of a woman : possibly Isabella Lewis
Citation:
Digitised item from: Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts, State Library of Tasmania.
Record ID:
SD_ILS:90182
Electronic resources:
View online