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Mrs Richard Brooks
(1826-1827)
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
74.1 × 61.5 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1977
Gallery location
Gallery 5
Level 2, NGV Australia
About this work
The sitter of this portrait, Christiana Brooks, was an early English settler and a prolific diarist. Her writing offers insight into the life of a woman who socialised widely, occupied herself caring for her family, and enjoyed the newspapers. Although she complained initially of Sydney’s summer heat, she ultimately settled comfortably into a life that would have been out of reach in England. In 1828 Brooks’s daughter Christiana Blomfield recounted that artist Augustus Earle ‘was glad of the opportunity’ to paint her parents’ portraits and that he produced ‘excellent likenesses … amongst the best’.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Sydney, New South Wales
Accession Number
A34-1977
Department
Australian Painting
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of The Vizard Foundation
Subjects (general)
Portraits
Subjects (specific)
bonnets (hats) busts (general, figures) eyeglasses shawls single-sitter portraits women (female humans)
Frame
Reproduction, 1994