Thomas Parkinson
(1744-1789?), Portrait painterArtist associated with 7 portraits
by John Raphael Smith, published by William Humphrey, after Thomas Parkinson
NPG D862
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LA OKEEFFE
02 August 2019, 09:24
Thomas Parkinson also painted a portrait of the blind Irish playwright, John O'Keeffe (1747-1833). Note of this is made in, Recollections of a Life by Himself, by John O'Keeffe 1826, Volume II, page 92 reads the following:
Mr Parkinson also took a very good likeness of me as large as life, in a straw hat lined with green.
Air Vice-Marshal Bruce Short AM RFD MBBS MA M Phil FRACP FACP FCCP FACTM
04 July 2021, 05:58
Thomas Parkinson also painted a portrait of surgeon William Balmain (1762-1803) chief surgeon at New South Wales from 1796-1803), and commissioned sometime between August and November 1803. The likeness was engraved in mezzotint by Richard Earlom (1743-1822). The undated had hand coloured mezzotint is 35.6 x 28.3 cm. and held by the National Library of Australia, PIC drawer 7256 #S9504.