Port Jackson Painter

Also known as Henry Brewer, Francis Fowkes
  • Artist (Draughtsman),
  • Artist (Painter)
The 'Port Jackson Painter' is the name now used for an unidentified painter (or painters) - the most prolific of the First Fleet artists - who worked in Sydney from 1788 to the mid 1790s. One of the painter's works is believed to illustrate an incident of about 1789/90 not otherwise recorded.

Citations

  • Smith, Bernard (1960), 'European Vision and the South Pacific 1768-1850’, Melbourne : Oxford University Press (2nd, revised, edition, Yale, 1985).

  • McCormick, Tim (ed.) (1987), 'First Views of Australia 1788-1825 : a history of early Sydney’, Chippendale, NSW : David Ell Press in association with Longueville Publications.

  • Smith, Bernard, Information from.

  • Smith, Bernard; & Wheeler, Alwyne (eds.) (1988), 'The Art of the First Fleet’, Melbourne, Vic : Melbourne : Oxford University Press.

Initial data sources

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