George Thomas William Blamey Boyes b. 16 December 1786

  • Artist (Painter)
Like many early colonists in public service, George Boyes was able to pursue leisurely hobbies, such as watercolour painting; he preferred the landscape of Tasmania to New South Wales and spent most of his life in Australia in Hobart.

Citations

  • 'Letters and Diaries of G.T.W.B. Boyes’, Royal Society of Tasmania.

  • 'Colonial and War Office records’, esp. WO 58/116.

  • Chapman, P. (ed.) (1985), 'The Diaries and Letters of G.T.W.B. Boyes: Vol. 1 1820-1832’, Melbourne, Vic., vol. 2.

  • (1985), 'John Glover’s migration to Tasmania’, Art Bulletin of Tasmania.

Initial data sources

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