Nathan Elias Knight b. 1815

  • Artist (Draughtsman)
A sketcher, farmer and customs agent, Nathan Knight arrived at the Swan River Colony in Western Australia in 1841. His only recorded works are two sketches of Fremantle from about 1841 that were reproduced over 80 years later in the Western Mail.

Citations

  • Erickson, R. (1988), 'The Bicentennial Dictionary of Western Australians pre 1829-1888’, Nedlands, WA.

  • (1895), West Australian, 05-22.

  • (1927), Western Mail, 04-14.

  • Knight, Nathan, 'Journal 1841/1842 (manuscript)’, Battye Library of Australian History, State Library of Western Australia, Perth, WA.

Initial data sources

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