Richard John Uniacke - Uniacke Estate Museum

Uniacke Estate Museum

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His substantial estate (c. 1813) is preserved as the Uniacke Estate Museum Park at Mount Uniacke.

Visitors can also see portraits which belonged in the Uniacke family by the leading American artists of the era:

• Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia Michael Francklin by John Singleton Copley (1762)

• Susannah (Boutineau) Franklin (1762) by John Singleton Copley (wife of Michael Franklin; grandchild of Peter Faneuil)

• Susannah Boutineau by Robert Feke (1748), (mother-in-law of Michael Franklin)

• Alicia Uniacke (daughter of Richard John Uniacke) by Robert Field (painter)

• Richard John Uniacke, Jr. (son of Richard John Uniacke) by Robert Field (painter)

• The portraits of the Francklins accompanied the newlywed couple to Nova Scotia in 1762 and remained in the province until 1927. Michael's portrait was purchased for the Nova Scotia Museum collection in 1982. The two portraits were reunited at Uniacke House after the acquisition of Susanna's portrait in 2004.
• James Boutineau by Robert Feke (1748), (father-in-law of Michael Franklin)