James Pattison Cockburn b. 1779

Also known as Major-General Cockburn
  • Artist (Painter)
Topographical painter, author and army officer born in New York, USA. Resident of England and Canada he visited NSW en route between the two. Dursing his time in the army he also served at Malta, Copenhagen, the Cape of Good Hope and the East Indies.

Citations

  • Cockburn, James Pattison (1833), 'Folio of prints of Niagara and Quebec’.

  • Cockburn, James Pattison (1831), 'Quebec and its Environs: Being a Picturesque Guide to the Stranger’.

  • Cockburn, James Pattison (1822), 'Views of the Valley of Aosta’.

  • Cockburn, James Pattison (1822), 'Views To Illustrate the Simplon Route’.

  • Cockburn, James Pattison (1820), 'Swiss Scenery’.

  • Cockburn, James Pattison (1815), 'Voyage to Cadiz and Gibraltar’.

  • Cockburn, James Pattison (1811), 'Malta and Sicily’.

  • Caulfield, J. (June 1987), 'Three preconfederation painters of the Canadian city: Part 1 James Cockburn’, Canada : Urban History Review, Volume 16, Issue 1, .

  • Stephen, L.; and Lee, S. (eds) (1885), 'Dictionary of National Biography’, London, England, UK : 22 volumes.

  • Aylmer, L. A. (1934), 'Recollections of Canada’, Quebec, Canada : Rapport de l’Archiviste de la Province de Québec.

  • Harper, J. R. (1970), 'Early Painters and Engravers in Canada’, Toronto, Canada.

  • Kerr, J. S. (1988), 'Out of Sight Out of Mind’, Sydney, NSW : National Trust catalogue (under Pattison).

  • Reid, D. (1973), 'A Concise History of Canadian Painting’, Toronto, Canada.

  • (1869), 'List of Officers of the Royal Regiment of Artillery from the year 1716 to the present date’, Woolwich, London, England, UK : rev. edn.

  • Information sourced from Kerr, J. S.

  • Harper, J. R. (1977), 'Painting in Canada: A History’, Toronto, Canada : 2nd edn.

  • Information sourced from Malor, Deborah.

  • Information sourced from Imashev, Elizabeth.

See also

  • 'The Fort on the Cox's River near Bathurst, late 1830s, watercolour. Private Collection.'.

Initial data sources

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