• Title
  Jane Penelope Atkinson, 1832 / painted by Richard Read Junior
• Creator
  Richard Read, 1796-1862
• Call number
  MIN 427
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  November 1832
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  73508
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Drawings - 1 watercolour miniature on ivory, gilt-framed within a hinged wooden case, bound in red Moroccan leather, satin-lined, secured with 2 metal clasps. - image 9 x 7 cm. in case measuring 13 x 12 cm. - case is scuffed, particularly near clasps; small hole in silk lining at lower left
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Richard Read Junior arrived in NSW in 1819, as a free man. During the 1820s and 1830s he established himself as a prolific portrait painter, largely of medium format watercolour portraits. Many of these have survived but few of his miniatures have survived. Source: Curator of Pictures from notes on ML file
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• General note
  
  Jane Penelope Atkinson was the daughter of emancipist Mary Reibey. She married merchant John Atkinson in 1824, settled in Wilberforce on one of Mary Reibey's properties and produced 12 children. She died in Tasmania in 1854. Apart from being a portrait of a member of a leading colonial and emancipist family - and in that evidence of the tremendous social mobility of colonial society - this miniature is also a rare and high quality example of colonial miniature painting. Source: Curator of Pictures from notes on ML file
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Painted by / R. Read / No. 89 Pitt Street / Sydney N. S. Wales / Novr 1832 / Mrs Jn[?] Atkinson -- inscribed on backing paper
• Name
  Atkinson, Jane Penelope, 1807-1854
  
• Subject
  Adult Females
  
• Topic
  colonial art
  miniatures
  portraits
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE4375612

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