Code: M1175
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Miniature of a seated gent known as Richard Clarke Sewell, with dark hair facing front, wearing a dark green cloak tied over a black jacket with black stock and red scarf. Enamel on copper by William Bone C1840. Original gold frame, the reverse with glazed hair on silk with a central gold and turquoise enamel flower with diamond leavea.
NB: Richard Clarke Sewell was a barrister and legal writer who later practised in Australia. The eldest son of Thomas Sewell of Newport, Isle of Wight, he was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford where he was a demy from 1821-1837 and a fellow from 1837-1856. In 1830, he was called to the bar at the Middle Temple, became known as a special pleader and took business on the western circuit and at the Hampshire sessions. He served as senior dean of arts in 1838, bursar in 1840 and as Vice-President and praelector of natural philosophy in 1843. In 1857, he was appointed reader in law to the University of Melbourne. His brother, Henry Sewell (1807-1879) was the 1st Premier of New Zealand.
