Frederick Colquhoun Tindal b. 13 October 1829

  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Pastoralist who sketched various subjects including Aboriginal portraits, homesteads and Australian fauna. Tindal drowned aged 25 while attempting to cross the Clarence River in NSW. By unfortunate coincidence it was the same fate that met his younger brother two years earlier and the same fate that would meet his other brother two years later when the Dunbar was wrecked off Sydney Heads.

Citations

  • 'The Tindal family letters and other historical letters of the Clarence River District’, Royal Australian Historical Society (comp.); Sydney, NSW : State Library of New South Wales, Mitchell Library (manuscript 2128X).

  • 'Tindal Family Notebook’, Sydney, NSW : State Library of New South Wales, Mitchell Library doc. 2349 (xerox copy).

  • 'Tindal Letter Book 1’, Sydney, NSW : State Library of New South Wales, Mitchell Library 2/A2069.

  • Stevens, J.F.; & Sabine, F.J (1964), 'The path finders’, Sydney, NSW : State Library of New South Wales, Mitchell Library (manuscript 1120).

  • Information sourced from Lennon, J.

  • Information sourced from Kerr, J. S.

Initial data sources

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