Title:
Oil portrait of Mrs Isabella Lewis (nee Mackellar), 1798-1883.
Author/Creator:
Production:
[Tasmania] : [Thomas Bock], [1835?]
Physical description:
1 painting : oil on canvas ; 760 x 625 mm (within frame) ; 980 x 865 x 109 mm (frame).
Medium:
canvas oil paint
Series:
Format:
picture
Provenance:
From the collections of the Lewis Family.
Accession number:
FA1352
Notes:
Title assigned by Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts.
Unsigned and undated. Attributed to Thomas Bock.
Original shaped and moulded figure Huon pine veneer frame, typical of work of Robin V. Hood.
TMAG gallery loan label attached to verso.
History note:
A head and shoulders portrait of Isabella Lewis as a young woman, facing front. 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.
Condition:
Condition: Support: tension strength slightly slack. Paint: mechanical cracks throughout; minor losses around edges. Surface: semi-gloss varnish; noticeable matt patches in upper left; considerable varnish residues. Slip: painted gold - minor chips in corners and chip bottom right. Frame: good rigidity; minor losses; cracks top right and right across bottom frame member - these cracks coated with a pink-tinged substance; mitres have a white-coloured residue.
Form of work:
Oil painting
Record ID:
SD_ILS:1253085
Electronic resources:
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