John Abbott b. 1803

  • Artist (Painter)
This sketcher, watercolourist and songwriter became the registrar-general of births, deaths and marriages in Van Diemen's Land in the mid nineteenth century. His watercolours were exhibited in the 1866 Melbourne and 1870 Sydney Intercolonial Exhibitions.

Citations

  • Townsley, W.A. (1966), 'Edward Abbott’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, Vol 1, ed. D. Pike, A. Shaw, M. Clark, B. Nairn, G. Serle and R. Ward, Melbourne, Vic.

  • Craig, C. (1961), 'The Engravers of Van Diemen’s Land’, Launceston, Tas.

  • Walch (1876), 'Walch’s Tasmanian Almanac’, Hobart, Tas.

  • Selkirk, H. (1920), 'David Lennox, the bridge builder’, Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, vol 6, no 5.

  • 'Archives Office of Tasmania’, Hobart, LSD1/80/49.

  • 'Archives Office of Tasmania’, Hobart, LSD1/1/77-88.

  • Abbott, John (1854), 'Song of the Fair Emigrant’, published as sheet music by the Hobart Town lithographer R.V. Hood.

Initial data sources

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