Isaac Gilsemans

  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Sketcher and cartographer, he is thought to have been responsible for the coastal profiles in Tasman's journal and therefore the first European to make an image of Van Diemen's Land.

Citations

  • Zandvliet, K. (1988), 'Golden opportunities in geopolitics’, Terra Australis, Art Gallery of New South Wales catalogue, Eisler, W. and Smith, B. (eds), Sydney, New South Wales.

Initial data sources

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