Charles Sturt b. 1795

  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Despite his reputation as an explorer, Charles Sturt was also a keen sketcher who drew early admiration from the Duke of Wellington, whose portrait Sturt drew while an ensign in the British Army. Many of Sturt's Australian sketches were later used as illustrations in his books about his inland Australian explorations. The noted natural historian John Gould was also an admirer of Sturt's drawings,

Citations

  • Beale, E. (1979), 'Sturt, the Chipped Idol’, Sydney, NSW.

  • Brock, D.G. (1975), 'To the Desert with Sturt’, Adelaide, SA : [Peake-Jones, K. (ed.)].

  • Cumpston, J.H.L. (1951), 'Charles Sturt’, Melbourne, Vic.

  • Hart, C. (1988), ''Sturt and his journeys’ in Australia in Oxford’, Oxford, England, UK : Pitt Rivers Museum, [Morphy, H.; & Edwards, E. (eds.)].

  • Sturt, N. (1895), 'Life of Charles Sturt’, London, England, UK.

  • 'Sturt Papers’, Sydney, NSW : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales.

  • '[Colonial Office Papers]’, London, England, UK : Public Records Office [CO 201/219 & 244, CO 13/11, 14, 15, 38].

  • 'Sturt Papers’, National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT.

  • (1934), 'Sturt Papers’, Sydney, NSW : The Story of Australian Art, 2 volumes, (facsimile reprint, 1980); Moore, William.

  • 'Sturt Papers’, Oxford, England, UK : Rhodes House.

  • Sturt, Charles (1833), 'Two Expeditions into the Interior of South Australia’, London, England, UK : 2 volumes.

  • (1849), 'Narrative of an Expedition into Central Australia’, London, England, UK : 2 volumes.

Initial data sources

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