John Hennings b. 6 July 1835

Also known as Johann Friedrich Hennings
  • Artist (Painter)
Painter, scene-painter and decorator, was born in Germany and arrived in Melbourne in 1855 where he painted theatre scenes for about four decades. Hennings's contribution to Australian scene-painting was considerable.
creator of
(sketch for a panorama of Sydney)

Sketch for a panorama of Sydney, January 1871, probably for one of his pantomimes, p.c. (ill. Colligan, p.118).

 
creator of
(Scene design)

Scene design for the 1866 Lyster production of the opera Robert the Devil at the Theatre Royal, Melbourne, p.c. (ill. Colligan, p.101; Hennings Papers, owned by Hennings great-grandson Mr Geoff Morris, include a watercolour sketch of the ballet of nuns in Act III, scene ii of the Lyster Opera Company’s production of Meyerbeer’s Roberto il diavolo in late 1866).

 
creator of
Young Australia

'Young Australia’, a lad on Manly Beach in Hey Diddle Diddle in Sydney, prefigured Hop’s legendary 'Little Boy at/from Manly’.

 
creator of
Yarra Falls. View on the Yarra, near Melbourne
 
creator of
View in North Germany
 
creator of
Fruit Piece
 
creator of
Epsom Downs on Derby Day
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