John Allen

  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Colonial Tasmanian sketcher and settler. Allen apparently took an early crude sketch of local Aborigines back to England where he had it turned into an oil painting by a professional painter. The painting is now held in the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery.

Citations

  • Hansen, David, Hobart, Tas : Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery.

  • (2000), 'Fine Australian and International Paintings and Australia’, Sydney, NSW : Sotheby’s, 15-16 August 2000 (lot 322).

  • Hansen, David, Art Monthly, Date of article unknown. Possibly either December 2002 or December 2003.

Initial data sources

  • Legacy data. Source 'unknown'