sketcher and port master, lived in Hobart Town from youth, having arrived in Van Diemen’s Land about 1830. He was port master from 1856 to 1905. After he had delivered a lecture on the fine arts in 1851, the Tasmanian Colonist stated: 'Mr Hawthorn has received his classical education in Van Diemen’s Land, and may almost be called a native’. In August 1869 Hawthorn took part in a public demonstration of lithography in the schoolroom in Brisbane Street in aid of the Hobart Town Congregational Church fund. The Mercury reported that the lecturer, Major Lloyd Hood , and his chief printer, John Alvarez , produced several lithographic copies of a tree which Hawthorn had drawn on the stone in front of the audience. Sketches by Hawthorn are held in the Allport Library. A copy of the lithographed tree was previously held in a private collection in Tasmania but its location today is unknown.
- Writers:
- Staff Writer
- Date written:
- 1992
- Last updated:
- 2011
