Thomas James Lempriere b. 11 January 1796

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Self-taught portrait painter and decorative artist of Tasmania during the mid 1800s. Linus Miller said about him: 'Mr Lempriere was one of those rare specimens of humanity whom nature has endowed with a soul so much larger and more noble than we generally meet with'.
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creator of
Abraham and Agar
 
creator of
Maid of Athens
 
creator of
(Governor Sir John Franklin)

Pencil sketch in a sketch book held at the Dixson Galleries.

 
creator of
(Mr Cruickshank)

Portrait

 
creator of
(Affleck Moodie)

Portrait

 
creator of
(Mrs Wilkinson)
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Portrait

 
creator of
(Mrs Simpson)
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Portrait

 
creator of
(Betsy Carter)
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Portrait

 
creator of
(Sarah Smith)
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Portrait

 
creator of
(William Butters)
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Portrait

 
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(self-portrait)
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Oil painting

 
creator of
(George Fleming Armstrong)
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portrait

 
creator of
(Rev. John Allen Manton)
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Portrait

 
creator of
(William Thomson)
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Portrait

 
creator of
(Mr Young)
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Portrait

 
creator of
(Captain Kinghorne's portrait)
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Private collection.

 
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(Mrs Murray)
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Watercolour portrait.

 
creator of
(Captain Charles O'Hara Booth and his wife Elizabeth Charlotte, née Eagle)
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Portrait; oil on canvas.

 
creator of
The Settlement Macquarie Harbour, Van Diemen's Land
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Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania.

 

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References [<ExternalResource: Ellis, W. (1967), 'Thomas James Lempriere', Melbourne, Vic : in Australian Dictionary of Biography, (Volume 2), Pike, D. (ed.).>, <ExternalResource: Heard, D. (ed.) (1981), 'The Journal of Charles O'Hara Booth', Hobart, Tas.>, <ExternalResource: Lempriere, T. (1850), 'Souvenirs of France', United Services Magazine.>, <ExternalResource: Miller, L.W. (1846), 'Notes of an Exile to Van Diemen's Land', New York, USA.>, <ExternalResource: 'Lempriere Papers and Diaries', Sydney, NSW : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales (manuscript A3343, A577).>, <ExternalResource: Information sourced from Lennon, J.>, <ExternalResource: Information sourced from Stilwell, G.T.>]