George Roberts b. c.1800

  • Artist (Painter)
George Roberts was a prolific scene-painter. When Sydney's new Prince of Wales Theatre was opened in 1855, the Illustrated Sydney News reported that "the credit of constructing the scenery [belongs] to Mr Roberts".

Citations

  • (13 May 1865), 'Bell’s Life in Sydney’.

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

  • Evans, S. (1983), 'Historic Sydney as seen by its Early Artists’, Lane Cove, New South Wales.

  • Dysart, D. (1983), 'Celebrating Early Sydney’, S.H. Ervin Gallery Catalogue, Sydney, NSW, (October/November 1983).

  • (1984), Christie’s (Australia) Auction Catalogue, Sydney, New South Wales (September).

  • 'Royal Victoria Theatre: Playbills 1844 1845’, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney.

  • Death certificate.

  • Information sourced from Blair, Sandy.

  • Dysart, D. with McDonald, P.R. (1984), 'Looking East: Woolloomooloo to Watsons Bay’, S.H. Ervin Gallery Catalogue, Sydney, New South Wales, (October/November).

  • Information sourced from Callaway, Anita.

  • Information sourced from Hennessy, Jan.

  • Information sourced from Lennon, J.

Initial data sources

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