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Mrs Richard Brooks (1826-27)

Mrs Richard Brooks (1826-27)

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Augustus EARLE
Great Britain 1793–1838
worked in Australia 1825–28
Mrs Richard Brooks (1826–27)
oil on canvas
74.1 x 61.5 cm
Purchased, 1977
A34-1977

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Augustus Earle arrived in Hobart in 1825, moved to Sydney and came to be regarded as the leading artist in the colony. Captain and Mrs Brooks were prominent settlers and pastoralists who, like many in their social milieu, commissioned Earle to paint their portraits.

Story objects

The River Nile, Van Diemen's Land, from Mr Glover's farm 1837

Coming South 1886

Captain Richard Brooks (1826-27)

Mrs Richard Brooks (1826-27)

The gold diggers 1854

Standing cup and cover (c. 1859)

An emigrant's thoughts of home 1859

Winter morning near Heidelberg 1866

Mr Clark's Station, Deep Creek, near Keilor 1867

Tasmanian Aborigines (1856-57)

Sea and sky 1902

Endormies (c. 1904)

Il miracolo 1957-1958

Madame Pfund (1887)

Wardrobe from the Mathias suite (1906-07)

Shallow chest on stand (c. 1948)

The bathers (1989)

Sexy and dangerous (1996)

International behaviour 2000