James Walsh b. 1833

Also known as J. Walsh, Walsh
  • Artist (Painter)
painter and clerk. Arrived in Western Australia as a convict in 1854. A series of twelve pencil and watercolour sketches of Aborigines are attributed to Walsh. He may have decorated a cell in Fremantle gaol with monochrome frescoes

Citations

  • Chapman, B. (1979), 'The Colonial Eye’, AGWA catalogue, Perth 1979.

  • Erickson, R. (1979), 'Dictionary of Western Australians 1829 1914’, vol. 2, Nedlands (WA) 1979.

  • Gooding, Janda (1985), 'From Mount Eliza’, AGWA catalogue, Perth 1985.

  • Information sourced from Kerr, James Semple.

See also

  • 'James Walsh (attrib) Drawings on Cell Wall (detail) c.1859, pencil. Fremantle Gaol, Western Australia'.

Initial data sources

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