IMAGE
Backler, Joseph 1815-1897 :Revd Samuel Marsden. First missionary to New Zealand. Born 1764. Died 1838. [Between 1833 and 1838 or later]
- Date
- 1832 - 1838
- By
- Backler, Joseph, 1815-1895; Read, Richard, 1796-1862; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918
- Reference
- G-620
- Description
Frontal head and shoulders portrait of Marsden in his clerical robes
Other Titles - Reverend Samuel Marsden. Born 1765.
Backler arrived in New South Wales aboard the convict ship "Portland" in 1832. This portrait may have been executed before Marsden's death in 1838, while Backler was employed by Major Thomas Mitchell as a draughtsman in Sydney. As it appears to be a copy of (Australian artist) Richard Read's 1833 watercolour portrait of Marsden (Ref. no. A-039-038) the copy may have been made later
Quantity: 1 oil(s).
Physical Description: Oil on canvas 757 x 626 mm (sight)
Provenance: Purchased by A. H. Turnbull from Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1 October 1907, for £105. Thought to be the first oil painting purchased by Turnbull.
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Format
- 1 oil(s), Works of art, Oil paintings, Portraits, Oil on canvas 757 x 626 mm (sight)
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