portraitist, painted an untitled portrait lent to the 1849 exhibition of the Society for the Promotion of the Fine Arts in Australia. It failed to please the Sydney Morning Herald critic of 2 June 1849, who declared, 'we have seen much better specimens from the hand of this young artist’. His address was given in the catalogue as the Royal Hotel, Sydney, but he was probably a son of the prominent Sydney emancipist and medical practitioner William Bland.
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- Date written:
- 1992
- Last updated:
- 2011
