Charles Edward Winston b. 27 March 1825

  • Artist
Charles Edward Winston was a wood-engraver. He arrived in Adelaide from London in 1851. Winston worked in South Australia, Victoria, New Zealand and New South Wales. In Sydney in 1876, he was invited to test suitable Australian timbers for wood-engraving.

Citations

  • Jensen, E. and Jensen, R. (1980), 'Colonial Architecture in South Australia’, Adelaide, South Australia.

  • Darragh, T.A., 'Directory of nineteenth century engravers and lithographers working in Victoria’, ms.

  • Woodhouse, H. (1889), 'The Victorian pioneers of litho-drawing and engraving’, La Trobe Collection, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, typescript.

  • Information sourced from Borrow, K.T.

  • Information sourced from Deakin, Edwina.

  • Information sourced from Thomson, Joyce A.

  • (1852), Goodhugh’s South Australian Almanac.

  • (1854), Geelong Directory.

Initial data sources

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