Portrait of Frances Amelia Skipper

Skipper, John Michael, c. 1850, Artwork, B 47780

Oil portrait by South Australian colonial artist and solicitor John Skipper of his first wife Frances Amelia Skipper, nee Thomas. The canvas is striped mattress ticking, indicating the difficulty of obtaining materials in Adelaide at the time. The painting is attached on its original timber auxiliary support but with the two side members of the auxiliary support mistakenly reversed.