Henry Allan

  • Artist (Painter)
Portrait painter and settler in New South Wales. Allan's two undated portraits, both of which are in the Mitchell Library at the State Library of New South Wales, depict his brother George Octavius and a woman, Henrietta Allan, who is presumed to be George's wife.

Citations

  • Dowd, B., 'David Allan’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 1.

  • (1950), 'Henry Allan’, Correspondence, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, 491/1950.

  • 'Allan Family Notes’, Mitchell Library PXN 479.

Initial data sources

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