Henry Brewer b. c.1743

  • Architect (Architect / Interior Architect / Landscape Architect),
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
A sketcher and architect who arrived with the First Fleet. Nothing is known that is undoubtedly from Brewer's hand.

Citations

  • Gray, A.J. (1966), 'Henry Brewer’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, (ed. D. Pike, A. Shaw, M. Clark, B. Nairn, G. Serle and R. Ward), vol 1, Melbourne.

  • Gillen, M. (1989), 'The Founders of Australia’, Sydney.

  • McCormick, T. (ed) (1988), 'First Views of Australia 1788-1825’, Sydney.

  • Rienits, R., and Rienits,T. (1963), 'Early Artists of Australia’, Sydney.

  • Smith, B. (1985), 'European Vision and the South Pacific’, 2nd edition, Yale.

  • Smith B & Wheeler, A., (eds) (1988), 'The Art of the First Fleet’, Melbourne.

Initial data sources

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