John Alexander Jackson b. c.1809

  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Sketcher and public servant, was born in Scotland and came to Sydney, Australia in 1825 to be employed as a Government draughtsman. He moved between Australia and England often, and exhibited in the Exhibition of Colonial Artists at Adelaide in 1847.

Citations

  • (1847), South Australian Register, 02-13.

  • Penny, B.R. (1967), 'John Alexander Jackson’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, volume 2, Pike, Douglas (ed.), Melbourne, Vic.

  • McCulloch, Alan (1984), 'Encyclopedia of Australian Art’, Melbourne, Vic., (2nd edn).

  • Wilson, S.C. & Borrow, K.T. (1973), 'The Bridge over the Ocean’, Adelaide, SA.

  • Information sourced from Appleyard, R.

Initial data sources

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