sketcher, is referred to in Rev. Robert Knopwood’s Tasmanian diaries, kept from 1803 to 1838, first on 20 February 1818 when Knopwood noted: 'Mr. Capon, from Norwich, dind [sic] with me’. Entries throughout the years 1818 to 1831 refer to frequent visits, dining engagements and occasionally the 'smoaking’ of a pipe. His family is seldom mentioned, although on 20 August 1818 Knopwood wrote: 'I buried Mr. Capon’s little girl’; on 12 October 1818 Mrs Capon called with her husband; and another daughter is known from Knopwood’s visits to the family on 24 September 1820, 5 January 1824 and 6 June 1831. The only references Knopwood makes to Capon’s sketching appear in 1818: 'Mr Capon dind with me and drew a likeness of many of the natives, which were much pleased’ (27 November); 'Mr. Capon dind with me, taking a likeness of the natives’ (30 November); and 'Mr. Capon, he was busey [sic] in taking the likeness of the native girls at my house’ (2 December). Neither medium nor location of any work is known.
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- Date written:
- 1992
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