Hon Thomas Turner à Beckett b. 13 September 1808

  • Artist (Painter)
This sketcher,lawyer and member of the Victorian Legislative Council held ministerial posts and was a trustee of the Melbourne Public Library, Art Gallery and Museum. His drawings or paintings were exhibited at the 1860 Victorian Exhibition of Fine Arts.

Citations

  • Malone, B. (1966), 'Thomas Turner à Beckett’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 3, ed. Pike, D., Melbourne, Vic.

  • 'Knight Papers’, Fryer Library, University of Queensland, Brisbane.

  • à Beckett, Thomas Turner (Hon) (1871), 'Painting and Painters’, Melbourne.

Initial data sources

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