Samuel Charles Brees b. c.1810

  • Architect (Architect / Interior Architect / Landscape Architect),
  • Artist (Painter)
Samuel Charles Brees moved between England the the antipodes at regular intervals and was an architect, engineer, author and entrepreneur of renown in the colonies. 1841 Census.Church Terr,St Pancras,London.Civil Engineer. 1851 census.Glebelands,Love Lane,Mitcham, Surrey, Born Bloomsbury,London. 1810/11.Surveyor. Died at sea 1860-1865.Death notice in the GRO marine deaths Archive.Certificate produced Poplar London in 1865.
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Citations

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  • Bagnall, A.; Murray-Oliver, A.; & Curnow, H. (1968), 'S.C. Brees, artist and surveyor’, Turnbull Library Record, n.s., vol. 1, no. 4, November.

  • Brees, S. C. (1837), 'Railway Practice: A Collection of Working Plans and Practical Details of Construction in the Public Works of the Most Celebrated Engineers…’, London, England.

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  • Graves, A. (1901), 'A Dictionary of Artists 1760-1893’, 3rd edn, London, England (reprint, Bath 1973).

  • Johnson, J. (1984), 'Works Exhibited at the Royal Society of British Artists 1824-1893…’, Woodbridge (Suffolk).

  • Minson, Marion (2002), 'Brees, Samuel Charles 1809/1810? – 1865’, online : Dictionary of New Zealand Biography (updated 7 April 2006).

    http://www.dnzb.govt.nz/

  • (1988), 'A Catalogue of Oil Paintings in the Pictorial Collection of the National Library of Australia’, National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT.

  • (2000), 'Architecture including books of c19 and after’, London, England, Hugh Pagan Ltd, cat. 36, item 16.

  • Brees, S. C. (1847), 'Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand’, London, England.

  • Brees, S. C. (1849), 'Guide and Description of the Panorama of New Zealand’, London, England.

  • Brees, S. C. (1851), 'A Key to the Colonies’, London, England.

  • Brees, S. C. (1856), 'How to Farm and Settle in Australia…by an Old Colonist’, London, England.

  • Graves, A. (1905), 'The Royal Academy of Arts’, London, England (reprint, Bath 1970).

  • Davey, J. J., 'Reminiscences’, manuscript in private collection.

  • 'Lang Papers, vol. 7’, Sydney, NSW : State Library of New South Wales, Mitchell Library manuscript A2227.

  • Lyall, S. (1965), 'The architectural profession in Melbourne 1835 to 1860’, Melbourne, Vic : MArch thesis, University of Melbourne.

  • Tibbits, G., et al, 'Dictionary of Victorian Architects’, Melbourne, Vic : University of Melbourne manuscript.

  • Information sourced from Lennon, Jane.

  • Information sourced from Colligan.

Initial data sources

  • DAA with additions