Portrait of Elizabeth Isabella Broughton, about seven years old, 1814 [picture] / [Richard Read]
- Bib ID:
- 836060
- Format:
- Picture
- Author:
- Read, Richard, approximately 1765-1827?
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Description:
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- 1814
- 1 painting : watercolour ; 36.3 x 30.3 cm.
- Series:
- Rex Nan Kivell Collection ; NK417.
- Biography/History:
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William Broughton came to Australia as a servant on the First Fleet, and later served at Norfolk Island. There he lived with Elizabeth Heathorn, who had arrived in 1792 as a convict. They had five children. In 1809 Elizabeth and her two-year-old daughter Betsy sailed for England on the ship "General Boyd", which on the way visited the east coast of New Zealand in search of timber spars. At Whangaroa the crew and passengers, save for Betsy and three others, were killed by Maoris. Three weeks later Alexander Berry, a Scots merchant also seeking timber, heard of the massacre and came to investigate and rescued the prisoners. Betsy was taken to South America on board Berry's ship, for his cargo was destined for Lima, and waited there for nearly a year, until a ship bound for New South Wales arrived. After her return to Sydney her father had this portrait painted as a gift for the family who had cared for her in Lima. Betsy Broughton stayed in New South Wales, married and had seventeen children. She is buried at Bong Bong, near Moss Vale.
- Notes:
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- Attributed to Richard Read senior, and title assigned, by Rex Nan Kivell.
- Rex Nan Kivell Collection NK417.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-135177139
- Source of Acquisition:
- This portrait was acquired by Rex Nan Kivell in 1935.
- Subject:
- Exhibited:
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- Exhibited: National Gallery of Victoria - Australian Colonial Art - March - July 2018
- Exhibited: Treasures Gallery NLA: Portraits of the Famous and Infamous, August 2015 - December 2015
- Exhibited: "Treasures Gallery", National Library of Australia, 12 June 2012 - 12 October 2012.
- Exhibited: Drawing in Australia, ANG, 1989; Deja vu, NLA, 1989; Age of Macquarie, Hist. Houses Trust N.S.W., 1992; About face, Nat. Portrait Gallery 1994.
- Exhibited: "Travellers Art", National Library of Australia, 12 June 2003-21 September 2003.
- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Creator Date of Death is Before 1955
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Artistic
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1827
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1814
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