John William Lewin b. 1770

Also known as J. W. Lewin, I. W. Lewin
  • Artist (Draughtsman),
  • Artist (Painter)
Colonial Sydney painter, art teacher and naturalist, was the first free artist to settle in New South Wales and attempted to make a living as a professional painter.

Citations

  • 'Historical Records of New South Wales’.

  • 'Historical Records of Australia’.

  • Thomas, D., North, I., & McCarthy F. (1972), 'The Australian Landscape’.

  • Mander-Jones, Phyllis (1967), 'Lewin, John William (1770 – 1819)’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 2, Pike, D. ed, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, VIC, pp 111-112.

  • Hill-Reid, W.S. (1957), 'John Grant’s Journey’, London, UK.

  • Lewin, J.W. (1805), 'Prodromus Entomology – Natural History of Lepidopterous Insects of New South Wales. Collected, Engraved and Faithfully Painted after Nature’, London, 18 plates: Third edition, London 1822, 19 plates, and Birds of New Holland, with their Natural History. Collected, engraved and faithfully painted after nature, London 1808, 18 plates: 2nd edn, Sydney 18.

  • McDonald, P.R. and Pearce, B. (1988), 'The Artist and the Patron’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW.

  • Rienits, R.; & Rienits, T. (1963), 'Early Artists of Australia’, Sydney, NSW.

  • Sayers, A. (1989), 'Drawing in Australia’, Canberra, ACT.

  • Smith, B. (1985), 'European Vision and the South Pacific’, Yale (2nd edition), New Haven, Connecticut, USA.

  • Wantrup, J. (1987), 'Australian Rare Books 1788-1900’, Potts Point, NSW.

  • Antill, H.C., 'Journal of a journey over the Blue Mountains 1815’, ms, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW :.

  • Mander-Jones, P. (1953), 'John William Lewin: A memoir and bibliography’, Australian Biblionews 6/11 12, November-December.

  • Mander-Jones, P. (1956), 'John William Lewin, a memoir’, Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society 42/4, Sydney, NSW.

  • Mander-Jones, P. (1940), 'Lewin’s birds’, typescript notes, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, April-July 1940 (revised 1953), Sydney, NSW.

  • 'Dru Drury Papers’, British Museum (Natural History), London, England, UK.

  • 'Huey Papers’, Public Records Office, Northern Ireland, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK.

  • Information sourced from Berzins, B.

  • 'Riley Papers’, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW.

  • 'NSW Supreme Court records’, Sydney, NSW.

See also

  • '[Scene in Australian Bush], sepia-wash drawing, Rex Nan Kivell Collection (NK6066), Pictorial Collection (T2223), reproduced in Beatrice Spence, "The 'Official' Image: Print Culture in Early Colonial Australia", NLA News, May 2000, front and back covers.'.

Initial data sources

  • DAA with additions