Charles Rodius b. 1802

Also known as Charles Rhodius, Charles Rodins
  • Artist (Performance Artist),
  • Architect (Architect / Interior Architect / Landscape Architect),
  • Artist (Draughtsman),
  • Artist (Painter)
Charles (Rhodius) Rodius was a portraitist, illustrator, draughtsman, lithographer and singer. He was sentenced to seven years transportation for stealing a reticule containing a handkerchief, a smelling bottle, an opera-glass, and two opera tickets from Lady Laura Meyrick as she was leaving the Royal Opera House in London.

Citations

  • 'NSW Death Records : 4206/1860’.

  • Gray, J. (1967), 'Charles Rodius’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, [2], Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, [pp 389-390].

  • Buscombe, E. (1979), 'Artists in Early Australia and their Portraits’, Eureka Research, Sydney, NSW.

  • Dutton, G. (1974), 'White on Black: The Australian Aborigine Portrayed in Art’, Macmillan of Australia in association with the Art Gallery Board of South Australia; South Melbourne, Vic.

  • Foster, A.G. (1919), ''The Sandhills’: An Historic Cemetery’, Sydney, NSW.

  • Hackforth-Jones, J. (1977), 'The Convict Artists’, Macmillan, South Melbourne, Vic.

  • McCulloch, Alan (1984), 'Encyclopedia of Australian Art’, 2nd edition, Hutchinson of Australia, Hawthorn, Vic.

  • McDonald, P. R. & Pearce, B. (1988), 'The Artist and the Patron’, Art Gallery of New South Wales exhibition catalogue, Sydney, NSW.

  • (1839), Art Union, London, UK.

  • (23 February 1834), Australian, Sydney, NSW.

  • (5 December 1839), Australian, Sydney,NSW.

  • (17 December 1850), Melbourne Morning Herald, Vic.

  • (29 March 1856), People’s Advocate, Sydney. NSW.

  • (28 April 1851), Port Phillip Gazette, Melbourne, Vic.

  • (7 October 1834), Sydney Gazette, Sydney, NSW.

  • (26 November 1832), Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, NSW.

  • (3 September 1836), Sydney Times, Sydney, NSW.

  • (19 February 1829), The Times, London, UK.

  • 'Convict Indentures’, NSW Colonial Secretary, Sydney, NSW.

  • (1831), 'Letters’, NSW Colonial Secretary, Sydney, NSW.

  • 'Sydney Mechanics Institute Reports’, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, manuscript A4149.

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Initial data sources

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