Regency Portraits Catalogue
William Light (1786-1839), Surveyor-General of South Australia
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- Biography and References
Surveyor-General of South Australia.
'...medium height, sallow complexion, alert and handsome, with face clean-shaven excepting closely-cut side-whiskers, black curly hair, brown eyes, straight nose, small mouth and shapely chin' (A. F. Steuart, Founders of Penang and Adelaide, 1907, p 43).
'...medium height, sallow complexion, alert and handsome, with face clean-shaven excepting closely-cut side-whiskers, black curly hair, brown eyes, straight nose, small mouth and shapely chin' (A. F. Steuart, Founders of Penang and Adelaide, 1907, p 43).
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Dutton 1960Geoffrey Dutton, Founder of a City, 1960.
Mayo 1937
M. P. Mayo, Life and Letters of Colonel William Light, 1937.
This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: Richard Walker, Regency Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, 1985, and is as published then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.