George Gordon b. 1839

  • Artist (Painter)
A highly successful scenic artist in England before he arrived in Melbourne in 1879, Gordon was reported to have been paid £550 for his panoramas of the Egyptian war.

Citations

  • Callaway, A. (1999), 'The Temperature’s Rising: Tableaux and Transformations in Australian Culture’, Past Present: The National Women’s Art Anthology, ed. Joan Kerr & Jo Holder, Craftsman House, North Ryde (NSW), pp. 76-84, cites John [sic] Gordon, 'Scene painting in Australia’, Lone Hand 4 (November 1908), p110-113 in a footnote.

  • Callaway, Anita (2000), 'Visual Ephemera’, Univeristy of New South Wales Press.

  • Gordon, John [sic] (1908), 'Scene painting in Australia’, Lone Hand 4 (November).

  • Colligan, Mimi (2002), 'Canvas Documentaries’, University of Melbourne Press, Victoria.

  • Information sourced from Irvin, Eric.

Initial data sources

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