Matthew Flinders
(1774-1814), Hydrographer; inventor of the Flinders BarRegency Portraits Catalogue Entry
Sitter in 1 portrait
A navigator and cartographer, Matthew Flinders circumnavigated Australia and Tasmania between 1796 and 1803, successfully mapping their coastlines. He subsequently wrote A Voyage to Terra Australis (1814). Published on the day he died in 1814, Flinders never knew that the name Australia, which he had coined, was later accepted.
by Helena G. de Courcy Jones, after Unknown artist
watercolour and bodycolour on ivory, 1919, based on a work of 1801?
NPG 1844
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John Douglas
29 June 2020, 22:40
This appears to be a copy of the only known painting to exist in which Flinders sat for, in Mauritius, and is held by the Art Gallery of South Australia - a Google search of Matthew Flinders Portrait AGSA will bring up the gallery's reference and photo of the original portrait. I was not able to copy the link into your 'citation' section below.