James Doveton Stone b. c.1831

  • Artist (Photographer),
  • Artist (Painter)
Landscape painter who resided in Melbourne and Adelaide from the late 1850s to the late 1880s. Stone exhibited on many occasions with the South Australian Society of Arts where he was awarded many prizes for his oil paintings of local scenes.

Citations

  • Borrow, K.T. (1 August 1969), 'Letters from K.T. Borrow’.

  • 'Sands & MacDougall’s South Australian Directory 1884-1908’.

  • 'Boothby’s Directory and Guide to South Australia 1864-83’.

  • (1936), 'Glenelg Centenary Commemoration Day 1836 – 1936’, Official Souvenir Booklet and Programme, Glenelg, South Australia.

  • (1887), 'Old Colonists’ Association Jubilee Commemoration Catalogue’, Adelaide, South Australia.

  • South Australian Society of Arts Catalogues, Adelaide, 1869/1871.

  • (18 July 1908), Adelaide Observer (obituary).

  • (1863), South Australian Advertiser, 09-12, 10-12.

  • (1864), South Australian Advertiser, 20-12, 23-12.

  • Stone, A. and Stone, L., 'Letters from Misses A. and L. Stone’, Correspondence files, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 1935-36.

Initial data sources

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