Richard Henry Horne b. 31 December 1802

Also known as Richard Hengist Horne
  • Artist (Draughtsman),
  • Artist (Painter)
Sketcher and author, born in England, he wrote for Charles Dickens's "Household Words" before arriving in Melbourne in 1852. In Australia he wrote and exhibited paintings and drawings until returning to London in 1869.

Citations

  • Horne, Richard Henry (1866), 'The South Sea Sisters’, Lyric masque, opened the 1866 Melbourne Intercolonial Exhibition.

  • Blainey, A. (1972), 'Richard Henry Horne’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, volume 4, Pike, Douglas (ed.), Melbourne, Vic.

  • Pearl, C. (1960), 'Always Morning’, Melbourne, Vic.

  • 'R.H. Horne Papers’, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW.

  • Information sourced from Dixon, Christine.

  • Horne, Richard Henry (1843), 'Orion’, London, England, UK.

  • Horne, Richard Henry (1859), 'Australian Facts and Prospects: To Which is Prefixed the Author’s Australian Autobiography’, London, England, UK.

  • Blainey, A. (1968), 'The Farthing Poet’, London, England, UK.

  • Information sourced from Brewer, Mary.

See also

  • 'Recollections of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, 1856'.

Initial data sources

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