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.
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    Private collections.

  • Royal Commonwealth Society Library, London, UK
  • Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, Tas.
  • National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT
  • Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Newcastle, NSW
  • Dixson Galleries, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
  • Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW

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