• Title
  Edward D. S. Ogilvie, 1894-1895 / oil painting by Tom Roberts
• Creator
  Tom Roberts, 1856-1931
• Call number
  ML 687
  Status: On display – Paintings from the Collection, Room 2, South Wall, no. 202
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1895
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Paintings
• Reference code
  413821
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 painting - oil - 72 cm. x 56 cm., inside frame 110 x 85 cm.
  
• Collection history
  By descent through the Ogilvie family to Mrs Giselda Carson, nee Ogilvie.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Tom Roberts visited the Ogilvie property 'Yulgilbar' in December 1894, and was commissioned to paint Edward Ogilvie. Tom Roberts said of the visit: "...Went to Yulgilbar [home of] E. D. Ogilvie to paint blacks having a letter from P. G. King. Only did one head of a native, but an opus of 'The Chief' [Ogilvie] aged 80 with no sign of mental fatigue, military type, in mind and physique, I got along first rate with him disagreeing at nearly every point, painted him in the interior court (Spanish) of the house. They are delighted, its more solid than anything I've done...", Letter to S. W. Pring, 16 January 1895 (Mitchell Library call no. MLMSS 1367/2 p.23).
  
  The painting is briefly discussed, and illustrated, in "The Bookfellow" 29 April 1899, p.30.
  
  Frame is hand carved, based on a seventeenth century Italian design, and was possibly purchased by Ogilvie in Italy.
  
  Reference:
  Faces of Australia: Image, Reality & Portraits / Richard Neville. Sydney : SLNSW, 1992.
  Digital order no:a126022
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Signed and dated lower right `Tom Roberts 1895'
  Titled from inscription
• Subject
  Men--Portraits.
  Ogilvie, Edward David Stewart, 1814-1896--Portraits.
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Australian Impressionism - National Gallery of Victoria (31 March - 8 July, 2007)
  Australian Portraits Timeline - National Portrait Gallery (Australia) (December, 2008 - December, 2011)
  Paintings from the Collection - State Library of New South Wales (October, 2018 - )
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3151088

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