Portrait Medallions c.1840
16.5 cm diam. (each)
A pair of Australian Blackwood framed
plaster Portrait Medallions by the Australian sculptor Bernhard Smith
(1820-1885) of his parents, Lord Henry Smith (1778-1855) and Jane Mary Voase
(1783-1845) Sculptors and friends Bernhard
Smith and Thomas Woolner arrived in Melbourne in October 1852.
Represented: National Portrait Gallery,
London; Linnaean Society, London; Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge: National
Maritime Museum, London; National Gallery of Australia; La Trobe Collection,
State Library of Victoria.
Exhibited: Royal Academy, London 1842-1851;
Melbourne International Exhibition 1880-1881