natural history painter, apparently executed drawings for General Grose while Grose was Lieutenant-Governor of NSW in 1792-94. The English naturalist Aylmer Bourke Lambert, having dined with Grose in London, wrote in a letter of 1808:
The General… kept a Draughtsman one Jones constantly employed to Draw for him [in NSW], Birds, Fish , Animals, Plants &c. I never saw drawing anything like so well done in that Country. The Birds I think as well done as any one here could do them many Nat: Size about two hundred + sixty all of which just as I was leaving the Room after looking them over; he gave me the Whole!!!!!!
The bulk of these works have been identified as being most probably the 100 watercolours of birds of NSW and Norfolk Island executed by the 'Sydney Bird Painter’, now in Mitchell Library (Px D226).
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- Date written:
- 1992
- Last updated:
- 1989
