painter, engraver and lithographer, appears to have been the painter Lawson who showed River View by Moonlight in the Victorian Fine Arts Society’s 1853 exhibition at Melbourne. In 1855 J.D. Lawson was at Sandridge (Port Melbourne) advertising his services as an engraver and printer in the Argus and soliciting orders from Melbourne via his agent, Mr North of 51 Queen Street. In 1860 he and his partner, John Wesley Pearson , were working as engravers and lithographers at 3 Collins Street West, Melbourne; together they produced a lithograph of St John the Evangelist, Toorak . In 1861 they showed examples of their copperplate engraving and lithography at the Victorian Exhibition.
Lawson & Pearson continued in business as Melbourne engravers, Lawson’s private residence being in Clyde Street, St Kilda. The J. Lawson who painted and exhibited two oil copies of European Old Master paintings at the 1869 Ballarat Mechanics Institute Exhibition – Monk at Prayer, after Zurbaran and St Catherine, after Zampieri – also seems to have been the lithographer.
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- Date written:
- 1992
- Last updated:
- 2011
