sketcher, drew a (posthumous?) pencil portrait (Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney) of John Batman (1801-39). The 'J.H.’ who initialled an oval watercolour portrait of Major Edmund Lockyer in about 1854 (Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney) may be the same person, but the 'J.H.’ who signed and dated etchings on brick in the Macquarie Harbour prison, Van Diemen’s Land, in 1831 was undoubtedly another artist. His style was quite distinctive, as David Burn commented: 'In cell no.4, some penitentiary artist (“J.H. 1831”) had repeatedly developed the ruling passion for sundry mimic drop-scenes scratched in the brick work. Pensile imagery appears to have been this worthy’s peculiar forte, multiple copies of such interesting pictures being hung throughout the prison. Close to one of these … we beheld the name of “Daniel O’Connell”.’
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- Date written:
- 1992
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