Francis Howard Greenway b. 1777

Also known as F. H. Greenaway, F. H. Grinway
  • Artist (Painter),
  • Architect (Architect / Interior Architect / Landscape Architect)
Greenway was deported to the colony after the family's building firm declared themselves bankrupt and he was found guilty of forging a document. He became Australia's first colonial architect. He worked for Governor Macquarie, building many iconic public buildings including Hyde Park Barracks in Sydney.

Citations

  • Graves, A. (1970), 'The Royal Academy of Arts’, Bath, England, London 1905: reprint in 1970.

  • Herman, M. (1966), 'Francis Greenway’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol 1, ed. D. Pike, A. Shaw, M. Clark, B. Nairn, G. Serle and R. Ward, Melbourne, Victoria.

  • Ellis, M. (1953), 'Francis Greenway: His Life and Times’, Sydney, New South Wales.

  • 'Historical Records of Australia’, series 1, vol.9.

  • Kerr, E.J. (1978), 'Designing a Colonial Church: Church Architecture in the Colony of New South Wales’, Wetherby W. Yorks, British Theses In Print, England.

  • Kerr, J.S. (1988), 'Out of Sight Out of Mind’, Sydney: National Trust, New South Wales catalogue.

  • (1835), 'Australian Almanac and Directory’, Sydney, NSW.

  • (1821), 'New South Wales Pocket Almanac’, Sydney, NSW.

  • (1818), Sydney Gazette, 01-31.

  • Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, PXn 114.

  • Information sourced from Ellis, Elizabeth.

  • Information sourced from Lennon, Jane.

  • (1825), Sydney Gazette, 12-19.

  • Kerr, E.J. and Broadbent, J. (1980), 'Gothick Taste in the Colony of New South Wales’, Sydney, New South Wales.

  • Broadbent, James and Hughes, Joy (c.1997), 'Francis Greenway architect’, Glebe, N.S.W. : Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales.

Initial data sources

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