Junior Richard Daniel Read b. 4 May 1796

Also known as Reed
  • Artist (Painter)
Richard Read junior was a miniature, portrait and historical painter. Although by no means the only portrait painter in the colony, Read's career was one of the longest and most consistent - most of his clients were respectable traders or military officers or members of the the petit-bourgeoisie.
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Citations

  • Linford, R.J. (June 1976), 'An Australian set of Bowring-type tracing boards’, Papers of the Research Lodge, New South Wales, June, 4/8, .

  • Gray, J. (1967), 'Richard Read (junior)’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 2, [Pike, D. (ed.)], Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, Vic., p.366.

  • Buscombe, E. (1978), 'Artists in Early Australia and their Portraits’, Sydney, NSW.

  • Dixson, W. (1919), 'Notes on Australian artists’, Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, p.5.

  • (1988), 'The Artist and the Patron’, Art Gallery of New South Wales catalogue, Sydney, NSW [McDonald, P. R. & Pearce, B. (eds.)].

  • (1862), Argus, 01-17.

  • (1832), Hill’s Life in New South Wales, 09-14.

  • Greening, C. E., 'The two Richard Reads’, London, England, UK (typescript).

  • Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, (PXn 610).

  • Information sourced from Callaway, Anita.

  • (1826), Sydney Monitor, 11-03.

  • Elyard, Samuel (1837), '(Personal Diary)’, 02-08.

  • (1847), Heads of the People, 08-28.

  • (1849), Sydney Morning Herald, 06-02.

  • (1855), Volunteer’s March, January.

  • Information sourced from Lennon, Jane.

  • Information sourced from Harris, H. D.

Initial data sources

  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870

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