John Clements Wickham b. 21 November 1798

Also known as Captain John Clements Wickham
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
English naval officer and police magistrate who would marry into the Macarthur family after serving on the Beagle for over a decade. In the course of his expedition, Wickham produced detailed drawings of Indigenous rock engravings.

Citations

  • Morrison, A. A. (1967), 'John Clements Wickham’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, ed. D. Pike, A. Shaw, M. Clark, B. Nairn, G. Serle and R. Ward, vol 2, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, Victoria.

  • Hordern, M. (1989), 'Mariners are Warned! John Lort Stokes and H.M.S. Beagle in Australia 1837-1843’, Melbourne, Vic.

  • Wickham, J. C. (cited by Hordern) (1838), 'Proceedings of H.M.S. Beagle’, Nautical Magazine, London, England.

  • Stokes, J. Lort (1846), 'Stokes’s Discoveries in Australia’, London, England, UK.

  • Wickham, J. C., 'Description of the River Victoria on the N.W. Coast of New Holland’, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW.

Initial data sources

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