Senior Richard Daniel Read b. c.1765

  • Artist (Draughtsman),
  • Artist (Printmaker),
  • Artist (Painter)
Richard Read (senior) was sentenced to fourteen years' transportation for possession of forged notes and arrived in Sydney on the Earl Spencer on 9 October 1813. He was a miniature, portrait and historical painter. His portraits of public officials display naturalistic features that evince a nineteenth-century sensibility.

Citations

  • Gray, J. (1967), 'Richard Read (senior)’, in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 2, [Pike, D. (ed.)], Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, Vic. [p. 366].

  • Buscombe, E. (1978), 'Artists in Early Australia and their Portraits’, Sydney, NSW.

  • Dixson, W (1919), 'Notes on Australian artists’, in Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, [5].

  • (1988), 'The Artist and the Patron’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, exhibition catalogue, Sydney, NSW [McDonald, P.R. & Pearce, B. (eds)].

  • Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (PXn 610).

  • Information sourced from Greening, C.E.

  • (1805), London Directory, London, UK.

  • (1986), Christie’s Australia, 04-14, lot. 187 (illustration).

See also

  • 'Christie's Australia, 1986-04-14, lot 187, illustration of Esther Johnston, wife of George Johnston (miniature on ivory 6.5 x 5 cm) attended by 3 sons and 4 daughters.'.

Initial data sources

  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870