Henry Kelsall b. 1802

  • Artist (Draughtsman)
An amateur sketcher and surgeon Kelsall made five trips to Australia as Surgeon-Superintendent aboard various convict ships including the shipwrecked 'Waterloo' in 1842. The artist and convict Knud Bull was known to Kelsall on one such journey and a sketchbook completed by both of them is held at the Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery.

Citations

  • Bull, Knud and Kelsall, Henry, 'Sketchbook’.

  • (2000), 'Sotheby’s auction catalogue’, Sotheby’s catalogue, May, lot 56.

Initial data sources

  • DAA with additions