Captain H. J. Watte

  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Sketcher, has been identified as the painter of the unsigned School House at King George's Sound, Western Australia, 1860. The schoolhouse, partially depicted on the right, is probably that for Aboriginal children run by Anne Camfield. The artist is otherwise unknown.

Citations

  • Chapman, B. (1979), 'The Colonial Eye’, Art Gallery of Western Australia catalogue, Perth.

Initial data sources

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