sketcher, painted the watercolour Somerset, Cape York, Queensland , in 1872 (National Library of Australia). At the second exhibition of the National, Agricultural and Industrial Association of Queensland in 1877, the Sydney Mail noted:
Commander Bedwell, of the Pearl, surveying schooner, has a couple of pictures – the one a scene of which the Government House is the central object; the other a bird’s-eye view of the harbour of Hobart Town from the top of Mount Nelson. The works of this amateur artist are characterised by an attention to detail which is almost carried to a fault; the pictures require more careful study than a casual observer passing with the rest of a crowd through a picture gallery, has either time or inclination to afford. The pictures, however, have many good qualities, and prove that the artist is not only a careful but a poetic workman.
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