John Bowen b. 1780

  • Artist (Painter),
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
An unsigned watercolour with a vague attribution to John Bowen is now thought to be have executed by a different artist. The work, a view of Hobart that was shown at the Old Hobart Exhibition in 1896, was painted c.1804 when Bowen was in Tasmania as part of the expedition to form a settlement there.

Citations

  • Flinn, E., 'John Bowen’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 1, Melbourne, Vic.

Initial data sources

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