Percy Spence b. 14 December 1868

Also known as Percy Frederick Seaton Spence, Percy F. S. Spence
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator),
  • Artist (Draughtsman),
  • Artist (Painter)
Federation-era Sydney painter, illustrator and Bulletin cartoonist. Spence was born in Sydney but raised in Fiji before spending a number of years in England, living, working and exhibiting. Spence's 1913 painting of the Australian Fleet entering Sydney Harbour is held in the Royal Collection.

Citations

  • Cook, David (1986), 'Picture postcards in Australia 1898-1920’, Lilydale, Vic : Pioneer Design Studio.

  • Greenwall, Ryno (1992), 'Artists and Illustrators of the Anglo-Boer War’, Vlaeberg, South Africa : Fernwood Press, p 211.

  • McCulloch, Alan (1984), 'Encyclopedia of Australian Art’, Melbourne, Vic : Hutchinson of Australia (2nd edition).

  • Mills, Carol (1983), 'Illustration: Some work of Percy F.S. Spence’, Canberra, ACT : Canberra University Library Lu Rees Archives Notes, Books and Authors, pp 19-23.

  • Miles, M.A. (1990), 'Percy Frederick Seaton Spence’, Melbourne, Vic : Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 12, [Ritchie, J. (ed.)], Melbourne University Press.

  • Muir, Marcie (1992), 'Australian children’s books, a bibliography’, Carlton South, Vic : Melbourne University Press.

  • Moore, William (1934), 'The Story of Australian Art’, Sydney, NSW : Angus and Robertson (facsimile reprint, 1980), 2 volumes.

  • Rolfe, P. (1979), 'The journalistic javelin – an illustrated history of the Bulletin’, Gladesville, NSW : Wildcat Press, [distributed by Golden Press] p. 43.

  • Sydney, NSW : Daily Telegraph.

  • Sydney, NSW : Sydney Mail.

  • Sydney, NSW : Illustrated Sydney News.

  • Brisbane, Qld : Queensland Punch.

  • Sydney, NSW : Bulletin.

  • Sydney, NSW : Town and Country Journal.

  • (1897), Sydney Morning Herald, 09-13, p 3.

  • Information sourced from Anderson, Ingrid.

  • London, England, UK : Black and White.

  • London, England, UK : The Graphic.

  • London, England, UK : Sphere.

  • London, England, UK : Illustrated London News.

  • London, England, UK : Punch.

  • London, England, UK : Harpur’s Monthly.

  • London, England, UK : Ludgate Monthly.

  • London, England, UK : Pall Mall Magazine.

  • London, England, UK : Windsor Magazine.

  • Sydney, NSW : Lone Hand.

  • Fox, Frank (c.1911), 'Australia’, London, England, UK : A. & C. Black.

  • Agar, F. (1910), 'Eros! Eros Wins!’, Sydney, NSW : NSW Bookstall Co. (new edition 1911).

  • Dyson, Edward (1911), 'Tommy the hawker and Snifter his boy’, Sydney, NSW : NSW Bookstall Co.

  • Hume, Fergus (1896), 'The Dwarf’s Chamber and Other Stories’, London, England, UK : Ward Lock.

  • “Ironbark” (Gibson, G.M. ) (c.1893), 'Ironbark Chips and Stockwhip Cracks’, Melbourne, Vic : George Robertson.

  • Favenc, Ernest (1897), 'Marooned in Australia’, London, England, UK : Blaikie.

  • Favenc, Ernest (1896), 'The Secret of the Australian Desert’, London, England, UK : Blaikie.

  • Favenc, Ernest (c.1900), 'Tales for Young Australia’, Melbourne, Vic : Empson.

  • Ferres, Arthur (c.1898), 'His First Kangaroo’, London, England, UK : Blaikie.

  • Kerr, Joan, 'Joan Kerr Archive’, Canberra, ACT : National Library of Australia.

Initial data sources

  • Black and white artists