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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References [<ExternalResource: Gray, J. (1967), 'Richard Read (senior)', in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 2, [Pike, D. (ed.)], Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, Vic. [p. 366].>, <ExternalResource: Buscombe, E. (1978), 'Artists in Early Australia and their Portraits', Sydney, NSW.>, <ExternalResource: Dixson, W (1919), 'Notes on Australian artists', in Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, [5].>, <ExternalResource: (1988), 'The Artist and the Patron', Art Gallery of New South Wales, exhibition catalogue, Sydney, NSW [McDonald, P.R. & Pearce, B. (eds)].>, <ExternalResource: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (PXn 610).>, <ExternalResource: Information sourced from Greening, C.E.>, <ExternalResource: (1805), London Directory, London, UK.>, <ExternalResource: (1986), Christie's Australia, 04-14, lot. 187 (illustration).>]