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Joanna Gilmour describes how colonial portraitists found the perfect market among social status seeking Sydneysiders.
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Elegance in exile is an exhibition surveying the work of Richard Read senior, Thomas Bock, Thomas Griffiths Wainewright and Charles Rodius: four artists who, though exiled to Australia as convicts, created many of the most significant and elegant portraits of the colonial period.
Explore portraiture and come face to face with Australian identity, history, culture, creativity and diversity.
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