Joseph Arnold b. 28 December 1782

  • Artist (Painter)
Naval surgeon who accompanied Governor Macquarie on the voyage to Sydney in 1809. Arnold produced 244 watercolour sketches of coastlines while outward bound, including views of Port Jackson, Botany Bay, Van Diemen's Land (Tas.) and other parts of Australia. In 1815 he revisited Sydney as the first officially appointed surgeon-superintendent on a convict ship, the Northampton.

Citations

  • Arnold, Joseph (1845), 'Diaries’, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, manuscript A1845/46, Includes newspaper extracts.

  • Bateson, C. (1966), 'Joseph Arnold’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, ed. D. Pike, A. Shaw, M. Clark, B. Nairn, G. Serle and R. Ward, vols 1, Melbourne, Vic.

  • Turner, D. (1849), 'Memoir of Joseph Arnold’, M.D, Ipswich.

  • (1820), 'Dr Joseph Arnold’, Gentleman’s Magazine, February.

  • Whitby, G.P., 'Some early naturalists and collectors in Australia’, Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, vol. 19, no. 5.

Initial data sources

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