sketcher and businessman, drew several views of Melbourne and Geelong c.1856-64, including Dight’s Mills on the Yarra 1856 (Grimwade Collection, Potter Gallery, University of Melbourne). A collection of his drawings is in the Dixson Library and twenty to thirty oils and watercolours are scattered among his descendants (all unsigned, but the places depicted are identified). He was presumably the 'Mr. Masters, another amateur,’ who showed From Studley Park in the Melbourne Fine Art exhibition of 1862-63. The Illustrated Melbourne Post commended the care with which it was painted and the way in which 'the artist has studied the specific details of Australian landscape, with an observing eye’. The only Joseph Masters in the Melbourne Directory for 1864, a furniture dealer of 122 Bridge Road, Richmond, is the artist’s father.
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- Date written:
- 1992
- Last updated:
- 2011
