Andrew James Learmonth b. 1826

  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Sketcher and squatter who was born in India and migrated to Australia as a child with his family. Known to have sketched on his property in the Riverina District in NSW, Learmonth is best remembered as a highly successful landowner.

Citations

  • (8 December 1956), 'A squatter’s lot was not a happy one’, Sydney Morning Herald, reprinted from 'Notes on the Murrumbidgee and Riverina squattages’, Town and Country Journal c.1868.

  • Brown, P. L. (1967), 'John Thomas, Somerville and Andrew James Learmonth’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, (Volume 2), Pike, D. (ed.), Melbourne, Vic.

  • Leighton, S. (1868), 'Sketches in Australia with Journal Extracts’, London, UK.

  • (1868), 'Australia’, Canberra, ACT : National Library of Australia pictorial (album 1).

Initial data sources

  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870