G. F. Sargent b.

  • Artist (Painter)
A professional watercolour painter, from Warwickshire, England. The Mitchell Library holds several of his pen-and-ink views of Melbourne and Sydney done in the 1850s, some of which were engraved by Greatbach in Scotland.

Citations

  • Mallalieu, H. (1976), 'The Dictionary of British Watercolour Artists up to 1920’, Woodbridge, Suffolk.

  • Moore, William (1934), 'The Story of Australian Art’, Sydney, NSW : Angus and Robertson, 2 vols, (facsimile reprint, 1980).

Initial data sources

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