George Fleming Armstrong b. c.1803

  • Artist (Painter)
Irish religious instructor, came to Point Puer, Tasmania in the 1830s to be catechist at the outpost for convict boys at the Port Arthur penal settlement. Armstrong and his friend and colleague, Thomas James Lempriere, painted each others portraits.

Citations

  • Heard, D. (ed.) (1981), 'The Journal of Charles O’Hara Booth’, Sandy Bay, Tas.

  • (1836), Hobart Town Courier, 04-15.

  • Lempriere, T.J., 'Diaries 1834-49’, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, NSW, A3343 (copy).

Initial data sources

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