Maurice Appleby Felton b. 1803

  • Artist (Painter)
Records are uncertain as to whether Maurice Felton practised as a surgeon after his arrival in the colony. However, it is on record that he painted a significant number of well executed and enthusiastically received portraits, as well as landscapes. His untimely death would have denied a number of his contemporaries the opportunity for one of his excellent likenesses.

Citations

  • 'New South Wales Death Records : V1842207 26B/1842’.

  • 'Medical Registration Board Archives’.

  • 'St James’s Church Burial Records’.

  • Buscombe, E. (1978), 'Artists in Early Australia and Their Portraits’, Sydney, NSW.

  • McDonald, P.R. and Pearce, B. (1988), 'The Artist and the Patron’, Art Gallery of New South Wales catalogue, Sydney, NSW.

  • (1839), Sydney Gazette, September 28.

  • (1840), Australian, January 30.

  • Information sourced from Travis, M.

  • (1841), Australian, October 07.

  • (1842), Australian, March 31.

  • (1849), Sydney Herald, June 02.

Initial data sources

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