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painter and civil servant, had a portrait of the architect James Macgeorge in the first exhibition of the South Australian Society of Arts at Adelaide in 1857. The critic of the South Australian Register thought this had a 'stiffness about the eyes’. He showed a view of The Hills near Adelaide at the third exhibition in 1859. On 18 November 1861 Seyers delivered a paper titled 'A Brief Sketch of the Rise and Progress of the Art of Painting’ at a conversazione held at the South Australian Institute in conjunction with the society’s fifth exhibition, at which he showed a full-length portrait of Governor Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell. Despite the Register declaring that this 'certainly will not suffer from comparison with any former production of his atelier ', Seyers felt that he had to apologize for sending a portrait which was unfinished: 'The portrait of Sir R.G. MacDonnell was only twelve days work’, it was reported, 'and he had not had an opportunity of getting a sitting from the Governor, but was obliged to take the portrait from a photograph’. Almost two years later the Register again referred to this portrait, presumably finished at last.

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Date written:

1992

Last updated:

2011