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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associate of
Governor Macquarie
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associate of
James Atkinson
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associate of
Michael Massey Robinson
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associate of
Augustus Earle
1765
Artist (Printmaker), Artist (Painter)
associate of
Elizabeth Henrietta Macquarie
1765
Artist (Draughtsman), Designer (Architect / Interior Architect / Landscape Architect), Artist (Painter)

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