John Thompson b. 3 September 1800

  • Artist (Draughtsman)
A competent sketcher, Thompson's book of views, drawn in New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land between 1827 and 1832, appear mostly to be the products of leisure moments on official surveying expeditions.

Citations

  • Dixson, W. (1923), 'Notes on Australian artists’, Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, 9.

  • Kerr, J.; and Broadbent, J. (1980), 'Gothick Taste in the Colony of New South Wales’, Sydney, NSW.

  • Mowle, L.M. (1978), 'A Genealogical History of Pioneer Families of Australia’, Adelaide, SA.

  • (14 May 1861), '[Obituary]’, Sydney Morning Herald.

  • Thompson, J., '[Letters]’, Sydney, NSW : Mitchell Librarry, State Library of New South Wales, (manuscript At 44).

  • Thompson, J., '[Papers]’, Sydney, NSW : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, (manuscript A3813).

  • Information sourced from Lennon, Jane.

Initial data sources

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