Pastel
Portrait
Maker & role
Unknown, Artist
Production date
circa 1860
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Object detail
Title
Portrait of D'Arcy Charles Wentworth
Production place
Collection
Measurements
0 - Whole, H: 63 x W: 52cm (H: 630 x W: 520mm)
Production notes
Crayotypes as a medium were associated with Edwin Dalton b. 1800 d.after 1865 and Myra Felton b. 1835 d.1920.
Subject person
Credit line
Gift, 1932
Vaucluse House Collection, Museums of History New South Wales
Vaucluse House Collection, Museums of History New South Wales
Caption
Pastel portrait crayotype of D'Arcy Charles Wentworth (b.1828 d.1866), unsigned, c.1860, gilt mount under glass with walnut moulded frame
Description
Vaucluse House is known for its association with William Charles Wentworth and his family who owned the property as a small stone cottage in 1827 to the unfinished mansion of 1910 when it was acquired by the NSW Government.
The patriotic Wentworth was a lawyer, politician, explorer, and author, instrumental in drafting the constitution of NSW, the creation of the University of Sydney, and publishing Australia’s first inde-pendent newspaper. Unable to escape the then “shame” that his wife Sarah’s parents were convicts, and Wentworth’s own father’s chequered past, the couple decided to educate their children in England. The family left Vaucluse House and Australia in 1853, returning briefly in the early 1860s.
The Museums of History, NSW (MHNSW) interprets Vaucluse House according to the evidence available for its ownership by William Charles and Sarah Wentworth and their family 1827-1910. At the core of the collection is a significant body of material provenanced to the Wentworth family.
This unsigned crayotype portrait of William Charles Wentworth's half brother (D'Arcy) Charles Wentworth (b.1828 d.1866), is a type of portrait that involved a combination of photography and hand colouring the image with either crayons, pastels and or watercolours. The image created looks, as it does in this example, of a finely worked drawing.
The patriotic Wentworth was a lawyer, politician, explorer, and author, instrumental in drafting the constitution of NSW, the creation of the University of Sydney, and publishing Australia’s first inde-pendent newspaper. Unable to escape the then “shame” that his wife Sarah’s parents were convicts, and Wentworth’s own father’s chequered past, the couple decided to educate their children in England. The family left Vaucluse House and Australia in 1853, returning briefly in the early 1860s.
The Museums of History, NSW (MHNSW) interprets Vaucluse House according to the evidence available for its ownership by William Charles and Sarah Wentworth and their family 1827-1910. At the core of the collection is a significant body of material provenanced to the Wentworth family.
This unsigned crayotype portrait of William Charles Wentworth's half brother (D'Arcy) Charles Wentworth (b.1828 d.1866), is a type of portrait that involved a combination of photography and hand colouring the image with either crayons, pastels and or watercolours. The image created looks, as it does in this example, of a finely worked drawing.
Accession number
V88/47
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