Portrait Drawings from Colonial Australia
Elegance in exile is an exhibition surveying the work of Richard Read senior, Thomas Bock, Thomas Griffiths Wainewright and Charles Rodius: four artists who, though exiled to Australia as convicts, created many of the most significant and elegant portraits of the colonial period.
Art Exhibition
previously on
at
National Portrait Gallery
in
Other Metro Canberra
precinct,
Australian Capital Territory,
Australia.
From
Friday 01 June 2012 to Sunday 26 August 2012
Published by anonymous on Tuesday 05 June 2012.
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An exhibition of sixty beautiful and rarely-seen drawings, watercolours and miniatures, Elegance in exile will examine the interplay of art, biography and history in their work, tracing the links between their own lives and those of their sitters to present a fine and vivid map of life, culture and aspirations in colonial Australia.
