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Thomas Bock (1790-1855)
James Blackwood of Hobart Town
pastel
14½ x 12in. (35.5 x 30.5cm.)
James Blackwood of Hobart Town
pastel
14½ x 12in. (35.5 x 30.5cm.)
Provenance
Robert Vaughan Hood, Liverpool St., Hobart Town (label attached to the back).
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Further details
Bock exhibited at Robert Vaughan Hood's Liverpool Street, Hobart exhibition rooms in 1846. The artist had been transported to Van Diemen's Land on the Asia in 1824 and began his colonial career in portraiture in Hobart in 1825.
James Blackwood, son of Hew and Janet Blackwood of Ayrshire, Scotland was born on 23 September 1820. He was the first of three brothers to emigrate from Ayr to Australia arriving in Sydney in December of 1839. Blackwood's mercantile career began at the Union Bank, first in Sydney, and later in Hobart, Adelaide and Melbourne. He married Eliza Officer in 1849 and had his first child (Arthur, b.1850) while in Hobart. In 1851 he became inspector and manager of its Melbourne branch and in 1857, when the bank's colonial administration was reorganised, was made one of the two Australian Chief Inspectors in charge of the southern district, Tasmania and South Australia.
In 1859 he left the Union Bank to become partner-manager with Dalgety of the pastoral house F.G. Dalgety. Blackwood became Dalgety's most trusted colleague and was responsible along with Dalgety for transforming the merchant house into a firm which provided complex marketing and financial services to the pastoral industry.
James Blackwood, son of Hew and Janet Blackwood of Ayrshire, Scotland was born on 23 September 1820. He was the first of three brothers to emigrate from Ayr to Australia arriving in Sydney in December of 1839. Blackwood's mercantile career began at the Union Bank, first in Sydney, and later in Hobart, Adelaide and Melbourne. He married Eliza Officer in 1849 and had his first child (Arthur, b.1850) while in Hobart. In 1851 he became inspector and manager of its Melbourne branch and in 1857, when the bank's colonial administration was reorganised, was made one of the two Australian Chief Inspectors in charge of the southern district, Tasmania and South Australia.
In 1859 he left the Union Bank to become partner-manager with Dalgety of the pastoral house F.G. Dalgety. Blackwood became Dalgety's most trusted colleague and was responsible along with Dalgety for transforming the merchant house into a firm which provided complex marketing and financial services to the pastoral industry.