After the First Fleet, the ships brought a steady trickle of African convicts from England, although probably slightly less than one per cent of the 164,000 convicts transported. Among them was an African man who was celebrated as one of Australia's Founding Fathers, Billy Blue, who arrived in 1801. A commemorative portrait of Billy Blue hangs in the State Library of New South Wales. This portrait in oils is the work of J. B. East, an artist of some renown who had exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts and who probably produced his portrait immediately after Blue's death on 6 May 1834. His painting captured a tall, graceful black man with intelligent eyes and a beatific smile, in rag-tag clothing made from bits of military uniform, with his signature top hat, carrying the accoutrements of a bag slung over his shoulder and a carved stick. Blue is standing at the monument known as Mrs Macquarie's Chair in the Governor's Domain, as an acknowledgement of Blue's patron, Governor Lachlan Macquarie, while the distant harbour reminds the viewer of Blue's position as the official ferryman on Sydney Harbour, a position he held for many years. Within days of his death, The Australian newspaper announced that East's painting was on public view and the Sydney Gazette newspaper produced two full columns extolling Blue as a founding father of New South Wales, whose memory would be 'treasured in the minds of the present generation, when the minions of ambition are forgotten in the dust'. Indulging in high-flown praise, the editor told his readers: 'the reign of Billy is coeval with the foundation of the colony' (Sydney Gazette, 8 May 1834).