I would start your search at the National Portrait Gallery in London - yes, I appreciate that this is difficult if you are in Tasmania. I visited their archives earlier this year to look at document relating to Sir Joshua Reynolds. You will find a published Catalogue raisonne of his works, which lists every painting he produced and every sitter known about. I think that the one that is regarded as definitive is the one by Manning, but an art historian will correct me. I am sure that a copy of this book will be available in an art library in Tasmania. His diaries and sitter books for most years have survived, and can also be searched. The NPG has a card index which is not available on line of references to who holds what portrait - which as you can guess will be both out of date and incomplete, but for a famous picture you are more likely to strike lucky. They also have "green boxes" in which copies of pictures are held by artist and by sitter which often gives notes as to where the picture is (or more likely was). Wishing you every success in your researches Giles Colchester, Researching COLCHESTER family, any spelling, any time, any place And PACKARD in Suffolk ----- Original Message ----- From: "JAMES P" <jamesp006@optusnet.com.au> To: "SUFFOLK MAILING LIST" <suffolk@rootsweb.com> Cc: "ROOTS-WEB ESSEX MAILING LIST" <Essex-UK@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 2:05 PM Subject: [SFK-UK] MISSING PORTRAIT/S I am still trying to locate a picture of Daniel Sutton Jnr (1768 - 1859 - Essex and, latterly, Tasmania )- son of Daniel Sutton [ the great small-pox inoculator ] Having tried every possible source in Tasmania - with a total lack of success ! I think I must revert back to his earlier home, and accept an image at a much earlier age. My only reference is a book - published 1913 - " Ingatestone and the Great Essex Road including Fryerning -Author : E E Wilde - published by Humphrey Milford - Oxford University Press - 1913, which on page 277 states : " There is still in the possession of the family a fine oil painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds, of Daniel Sutton, the inoculators, in the prime of life, seated, in plum coloured coat, knee-breeches, white silk stockings and powdered hair; also another portrait of him, one of his wife, and others of his children, and their descendants - all with the sharp-cut nose that is so marked a feature in the father and son, and most of them very good-looking" Are any of the correspondents to this list a member of the family, or know of any descendants who may be able to assist with locating one, or some, of the pictures referred to above. Any assistance will be greatly appreciated James P <jamesp006@optusnet.com.au>