Francis Rawdon Chesney Hopkins b. 1849

  • Artist (Draughtsman),
  • Artist (Painter)
Sketcher, writer and grazier, Hopkins was born in India and educated in England, before migrating to Victoria in 1865. He was an amateur artist and playwright who exhibited in Melbourne in 1866.

Citations

  • Rickard, John (1972), 'Francis Rawdon Chesney Hopkins’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, volume 4, Pike, Douglas (ed.), Melbourne, Vic.

  • Hopkins, Francis Rawdon Chesney (1866), 'Hopkins to Secretary of the Intercolonial Exhibition’, Public Record Office of Victoria (PROV), VRRS 927 Unit 3, (2 August 1866).

  • Information sourced from Dwyer, Ruth.

  • (1878), 'Australian Ladies’ Annual’, Melbourne, Vic.

Initial data sources

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