George Peacock b. 1806

Also known as S. V. Peacock, G. E. Peacock, George Edwards Peacock
  • Artist (Painter)
George Edwards Peacock was a landscape painter. In 1836 he was sentenced to death for forgery at London's Old Bailey. The sentence was commuted to transportation for life. He reached Sydney in 1837. In 1847 he exhibited with the Society for the Promotion of the Fine Arts in Australia.

Citations

  • Hackforth-Jones, J. (1977), 'The Convict Artists’, Sydney.

  • Moore, William (1934), 'The Story of Australian Art’, 2 vols (facsimile reprint, 1980).

  • Neville, Richard (2002), 'George Edwards Peacock in the Picture Gallery’, Dixson Gallery, State Library of New South Wales catalogue.

  • Pelham, C. (1891), 'The Chronicles of Crime’, London.

  • Tanner, H. (1979), 'The Art of Gardening in Colonial Australia’, Australian Gallery Directors Council catalogue, Sydney.

  • (1857), Examiner and Melbourne Weekly News, 12-12.

  • (1874), Sydney Mail, 04-11.

  • (1847), Sydney Morning Herald, 07-26.

  • Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, PXn 90.

  • Darby, G. (1990), 'George Edwards Peacock and artistic life in Sydney 1840-1860’, Master of Arts thesis, University of Sydney.

  • (1849), Sydney Morning Herald, 06-02.

  • (1850), Sydney Morning Herald, 07-16.

  • (1851), Sydney Morning Herald, 03-05.

  • Information sourced from Bruce, C.

  • Information sourced from Lennon, J.

  • Information sourced from Chapman, W.

See also

  • 'First Australian railway, July 3rd 1850, c.1850, hand coloured lithograph, National Library of Australia, reproduced National Australia Bank Calendar for 2000'.

Initial data sources

  • DAA with additions