Joseph Jefferson b. 2 February 1829

  • Artist (Painter)
Joseph Jefferson was a landscape and scene-painter and an actor. He was born in 1829 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Jefferson made his stage debut when he was only four years old. He came to Sydney in 1862 with his elder son. Jefferson performed in Melbourne, Ballarat, Bendigo, Castlemaine, Tasmania and New Zealand. In 1869 his works were shown at the Melbourne Public Library Exhibition.

Citations

  • Shoesmith, D. (1972), 'Joseph Jefferson’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, Pike, Douglas, ed., Volume 4, Melbourne, Vic.

  • Benezit, E. (1948), 'Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs’, 8 Volumes, Paris, France.

  • Groce, G.C. & Wallace, D.H. (1957), 'The New York Historical Society’s Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860’, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.

  • Jefferson, J. (1964), 'The Autobiography of Joseph Jefferson’, Downer, A.S. (ed), Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

  • Love, H. (1981), 'The Golden Age of Australian Opera’, Sydney, NSW.

  • (1905), 'Cyclopedia of Victoria’, Smith, J. (ed.), Volume 3, Melbourne, Vic.

  • Stuart, L. (1978), 'The year 1863 (excerpt from James Smith’s diary)’, Meanjin, Volume 37, no. 4, December.

  • Thieme, U. & Becker, F. (1907), 'Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler’, 37 Volumes, Leipzig, Germany.

  • Wilson, F. (1906), 'Joseph Jefferson – Reminiscences of a Fellow Player’, London, UK.

  • Winter, W. (1881), 'The Jeffersons’, London, United Kingdom.

  • (1886), 'Reminiscences of the Melbourne stage, by an old playgoer, no. X’, Australasian, October, 16.

  • (1868), Australasian, 04-04.

  • (1863), Illustrated Melbourne Post, 01-10.

Initial data sources

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