John A. Upton b. 1850

  • Artist (Photographer),
  • Artist (Painter)
John A. Upton was a professional painter and photographic colourist of the late 19th Century. Upton studied at the Royal Melbourne Technical College and the Munich Academy of Fine Arts and his work is held in the Art Gallery of South Australia.

Citations

  • (1868), 'Adelaide Almanack’.

  • (1867), 'South Australian Almanac and Advertiser’.

  • (1868), 'Adelaide Almanack’.

  • Benko, N. (1969), 'Art and Artists of South Australia’, Adelaide.

  • Mather, J.B. (1913), 'Catalogue of the Art Gallery’, Adelaide.

  • Moore, William (1934), 'The Story of Australian Art’, 2 vols (facsimile reprint, 1930).

  • (1960), 'Catalogue of Oil and Watercolour Paintings in the National Gallery of South Australia’, Adelaide.

  • (1988), 'Catalogue of Oil Paintings in the Pictorial Collection of the National Library of Australia’, Canberra.

  • (1981), 'Visions after Light: Art in South Australia 1836 1981’, Art Gallery of South Australia catalogue, Adelaide.

Initial data sources

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