Frederick Schoenfeld b. c.1810

Also known as Fritz Schönfeld, Fritz Schonfield
  • Artist (Draughtsman),
  • Artist (Printmaker),
  • Artist (Painter)
Painter, lithographer and art teacher. In 1859-62 Schoenfeld was employed by Frederick McCoy, director of the National Museum of Victoria, to draw and lithograph specimen plates for McCoy's books.

Citations

  • Troedel, Charles (1865), 'Souvenir Views of Melbourne and Victorian Scenery’.

  • Mueller, Ferdinand von (1864), 'Analytical Drawings of Australian Mosses’.

  • Mueller, Ferdinand von (1860), 'Plants Indigenous to the Colony of Victoria’.

  • Mueller, Ferdinand von (1859), 'Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae’.

  • McCoy, Frederick (c.1870), 'Prodromus of the Palaeontology of Victoria and Prodromus of the Zoology of Victoria’.

  • Darragh, Thomas A., 'Directory of nineteenth century engravers and lithographers working in Victoria’, (Manuscript).

  • Woodhouse, H.J. (1889), 'The Victorian pioneers of litho-drawing and engraving’, La Trobe Collection, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, Vic. (typescript).

  • Hamel, Julius (1859), 'Men of Victoria’, Melbourne, Victoria.

  • (1860), 'Crucifixion (after Michelangelo)’, Hamel & Co.

Initial data sources

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