Joseph Anderson Panton b. 2 June 1831

  • Artist (Draughtsman),
  • Artist (Printmaker),
  • Artist (Painter)
Joseph Anderson Panton was a painter, etcher and police magistrate. He mapped the Yarra Valley while he was magistrate at Heidelberg. Panton Hill is named after him and Panton's Gap, near Healesville, after a hut he owned there.

Citations

  • Information sourced from Thomson, J. Melbourne, VIC, (1854), 'Exhibition Melbourne 1854, Paris 1855: Special Instructions for the Guidance of Local Committees and Intending Exhibitors’.

  • Gross, A. (1966), 'Joseph Anderson Panton’, Australian Dictionary of Biography 5, ed. Pike, D., Shaw, A., Clark, M., Nairn, B., Serle, G. and Ward, R. 1966-1976, vols 1-6, Melbourne.

  • Howitt, W. (1855), 'Land, Labour and Gold’, London (reprint, Kilmore, VIC 1972).

  • Information sourced from Chapman, W. Age, 03-24, (1873).

  • (1864), Argus, 03-02.

  • Information sourced from Bruce, C. Geelong Advertiser, 03-04, (1869).

  • (1875), Sydney Mail, 07-10.

  • 'Panton Papers’, La Trobe Collection, State Library of Victoria, ms.

  • Information sourced from Lennon, J.

  • Information sourced from Lennon, J. Sydney Mail, 04-14, (1877).

  • Information sourced from Thomson, J.

  • Information sourced from Chapman, W.

  • Information sourced from Bruce, C.

Initial data sources

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