Exhibition review: Paradise Lost – Thomas Griffiths Wainewright, Scott Carlin

Article from Vol 43 no 3, August 2021

Exhibition review: Paradise Lost – Thomas Griffiths Wainewright, Scott Carlin

Abstract:

Thomas Griffiths Wainewright (1794–1847) was early colonial Australia’s most sophisticated and glamourising portraitist. The current exhibition,
Paradise Lost – Thomas Griffiths Wainewright, at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (TMAG) features 40 works by Wainewright together with contextual works by Blake, Fuseli, von Holst and a raft of Old Master prints known to have been in Wainewright’s collection.

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