Joseph Lycett b. c.1775

  • Artist (Printmaker),
  • Artist (Painter)
Joseph Lycett was a painter. In 1811 he was convicted of forgery and transported to New South Wales for 14 years. Despite being called a portrait and miniature painter at the time of his conviction, all Lycett's extant subjects are topographical or botanical. In 1828 he was living near Bath when he was again arrested, cut his throat and while recovering in hospital, tore open the wound and died.
Tags: Convict, Forger, New South Wales, Newcastle

Citations

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

  • Rienits, R. (1967), 'Joseph Lycett’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, volume 2; Pike, Douglas (ed), Melbourne, Vic.

  • Bigge, J.T. (1822), 'Report of the Commissioner of Enquiry into the Colony of New South Wales’, London, England, UK.

  • Bonyhady, T. (1985), 'Images in Opposition’, Melbourne, Vic.

  • Bruce, C.; & Callaway, A. (1989), 'Wild nights and savage festivities: White views of corroborees’, Art in Australia 27, Summer.

  • Craig, C. (1964), 'Old Tasmanian Prints’, Launceston, Tas.

  • Dixon, R. (1986), 'The Course of Empire: Neo-classical Culture in New South Wales 1788-1860’, Melbourne, Vic.

  • Ellis, M. (1953), 'Francis Greenway: His Life and Times’, Sydney, NSW.

  • Hoorn, J. (1986), 'Joseph Lycett: The pastoral landscape in early colonial Australia’, Art Bulletin of Victoria 26.

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

  • Smith, B. (1960), 'European Vision and the South Pacific 1768-1850’, Oxford, England, UK.

  • Turner, J. (1997), 'Joseph Lycett: Governor Macquarie’s convict artist’, Newcastle, NSW.

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

  • 'Macquarie to Bathurst’, Historical Records of Australia (HRA) series 1/10.

  • Franklin, J., 'Diary of a Journey from Port Phillip to Sydney 1839’, National Library of Australia, ms 114.

  • 'New South Wales Register of Pardons and Tickets of Leave 1’, COD 18.

  • 'Shipping lists of convicts sent to Newcastle, 1811-22’, 4/3493 reel 1028 Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW.

  • 'Col. Sec. letters and petitions received 1804-21’, reel 2185 Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW.

  • Information sourced from Ellis, Elizabeth.

  • Hoorn, J. (1990), 'The Lycett Album’, Canberra, ACT.

See also

  • 'The Residence of John McArthur Esquire. Near Parramatta, New South Wales, London: published by J. Souter, 1825, hand-coloured aquatint, Rex Nan Kivell Collection (NK380/13), Pictorial Collection (U631), reproduced in Beatrice Spence, 'The "Official" Image:'.
  • 'Aborigines Resting by a Campfire near the Mouth of the Hunter River, Newcastle, watercolour, Lycett Album, reproduced National Library of Australia (NLA) News June 1991, 8.'.

Initial data sources

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