painter, executed an oil painting of Howell’s Mill, Parramatta in 1849 (Mitchell Library). That year he showed three paintings in the second exhibition of the Society for the Promotion of the Fine Arts in Australia at Sydney, including a copy of one of the other exhibits, Head ('supposed to be Lord Bacon’), catalogued as 'by an old Master’. Wickham’s painting must have been 'skied’ as the Sydney Morning Herald remarked: 'At the distance at which we view it, this appears to be a respectable copy of the excellent original’. Wickham lived at Parramatta for many years; his son Cecil Henry, an engineer, was born there in 1874.
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- 1992
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