Painting
Maker & role
Mrs Emily Ariel, Artist
Production date
circa 1875
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Object detail
Title
Untitled (Painting of a woman in traditional Calabrian? dress)
Production place
Collection
Measurements
0 - Whole, H: 77 x W: 67.5cm (H: 770 x W: 675mm)
Signature & marks
Reg. No. applied verso RHS
Credit line
Gift, NSW Department of Planning and Environment, 1987
Rouse Hill Estate Collection, Museums of History New South Wales
Rouse Hill Estate Collection, Museums of History New South Wales
Rouse Hill Estate Collection, Museums of History New South Wales
Rouse Hill Estate Collection, Museums of History New South Wales
Caption
Framed oil painting of a woman in traditional [Calabrian?] dress. Emily Davis (nee Ariel, nee Weaver), 1875.
Description
Portrait in profile of a woman in traditional, possibly Calabrian, dress. She wears red beads and gold earrings, a white blouse, red dress and a shawl. The painting and its frame, along with nearby works, has been badly damaged by water from a historic roof incident. While the frame has been re-used, it originally held a portrait-oriented work. The canvas has been made to fit. Unlike its companion works (R9016:18) ity is not signed, however can attributed to Emily M. A. Davis (nee Ariel, nee Weaver). It was likely painted from a photograph of an individual in folkloric costume, such as from Rouse Hill albums R86/792 or R86/793.
Though unsigned the work is one of four by Emily Mary Anne Weaver (1830-1908), whose sister Caroline Jane Weaver (1843-1913) married Samuel Henry Terry of Box Hill in 1863. Caroline’s son George married Nina Rouse. Emily relocated from Avon, England, to Sydney after the death of her husband Myles Ariel (1819-1853) and married Sydney Beavon Davis (1828-1884) in 1865. Dated 1898 (the frames being older than the works), the paintings may have been gifts to Emily’s sister, Caroline, (then being inherited by George Terry), or were perhaps a gift to George and Nina. Hung at Box Hill, they were transferred to Rouse Hill following George’s bankruptcy and he and his wife Nina’s relocation to her parent’s house.
Though unsigned the work is one of four by Emily Mary Anne Weaver (1830-1908), whose sister Caroline Jane Weaver (1843-1913) married Samuel Henry Terry of Box Hill in 1863. Caroline’s son George married Nina Rouse. Emily relocated from Avon, England, to Sydney after the death of her husband Myles Ariel (1819-1853) and married Sydney Beavon Davis (1828-1884) in 1865. Dated 1898 (the frames being older than the works), the paintings may have been gifts to Emily’s sister, Caroline, (then being inherited by George Terry), or were perhaps a gift to George and Nina. Hung at Box Hill, they were transferred to Rouse Hill following George’s bankruptcy and he and his wife Nina’s relocation to her parent’s house.
Accession number
R90/19
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