painter, drawing teacher and lecturer, was presumably a member of the New York Livingston family of artists. He visited Australia from the US and was teaching drawing in Tasmania by April 1856, when he gave a public demonstration of his prowess. It was reported that he had created 'some sensation by his dexterity in landscape drawing, producing a very effective sketch in little more than half an hour’. Then he went to Melbourne, where on 9 July he delivered a well-attended lecture on drawing at the Melbourne Mechanics Institution: 'A great many remained after the lecture to examine the productions of the artist’.
He may have been the Daniel Livingstone (sic) catalogued as having provided the design for a Gothic case in which to display alluvial gold, quartz and precious stones, made up by Thwaites & Son of Little Collins Street, which was shown at the 1861 Victorian Exhibition by the exhibition commissioners then sent on to London for the 1862 International Exhibition.
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- 1992
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