Richard Laishley b. 1816

  • Artist (Printmaker),
  • Artist (Painter)
Laishley was a natural history painter, lithographer and Congregational clergyman; a pupil of the painter and engraver Le Cocq. He was sent to New Zealand and Australia by the Congregational Missionary Society, staying on and entering many colonial exhibitions.

Citations

  • Laishley, Richard, 'Sketch notes of family history’, Unfinished manuscript.

  • Laishley, Richard, 'Gleanings of natural history in New Zealand’, Uncompleted manuscript.

  • Laishley, Richard (1870), 'Parrots of Australia’, Projected book of lithographic illustrations and accompanying descriptions.

  • Laishley, Richard, 'British Birds Eggs’.

  • Mander-Jones, P. (1972), 'Manuscripts in the British Isles Relating to Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific’, Canberra, ACT.

  • Platts, U. (1980), 'Nineteenth Century New Zealand Artists’, Christchurch, NZ.

  • Scholefield, G.H. (1940), 'A Dictionary of New Zealand Biography 1’, Wellington, NZ.

Initial data sources

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