Louis Wood

  • Artist (Draughtsman),
  • Artist (Painter)
Painter, sketcher and teacher, was the elder son of Captain William Wood, a soldier who settled in Australia. There are a few known watercolour paintings of his, as well as woodcuts made from his sketches, which were published in the Illustrated Melbourne Post.
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Citations

  • (Glover, M.) (24 March 1877), 'Tasmanian’.

  • Campbell, J. (1983), 'Australian Watercolour Painters’, Adelaide, SA.

  • Craig, C. (1984), 'More Old Tasmanian Prints’, Launceston, TAS.

  • Lancaster, G.B. (1933), 'Pageant’, Sydney, New South Wales.

  • Miller, E. (1956), 'Australian Literature’, Sydney, New South Wales.

  • Moore, William (1934), 'The Story of Australian Art’, 2 vols, (facsimile reprint, 1930).

  • Von Stieglitz, K.R. (1956), 'Six Pioneer Women of Tasmania’, Launceston, TAS.

  • Archive Office of Tasmania, NS 373/1.

  • Information sourced from Stilwell, G.T.

Initial data sources

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