Alfred William Eustace b. 1820

  • Artist (Painter)
The multi-talented Eustace painted scenes of historically important events in north-eastern Victoria. His landscape paintings on gum leaves earned him the title 'Bush Artist' and by 1896 he was receiving orders for them from Europe.
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Citations

  • 'Family papers’.

  • (1859), '(various)’, Federal Standard (Chiltern), 1859-1870.

  • Bayley, W. (1954), 'Border City, History of Albury’.

  • Ashley, R. (1974), 'History of the Shire of Chiltern’.

  • Information sourced from Lennon, J.

  • Ducker, S. (2000), 'Gumleaf Painting booklet’, University of Melbourne, Mlbourne, Vic.

  • Sadleir, J., 'Recollections of a Police Officer’, (n.d.), Melbourne, Vic.

  • Thomas, Daniel (1976), 'Australian Art in the 1870s’, Art Gallery of New South Wales catalogue, Sydney, NSW.

  • (1974), 'The A.W. Eustace Exhibition catalogue’, Chiltern, Vic.

  • (1872), Age, November 06.

  • (1857), Argus, January 05.

  • (1884), Ballarat Courier, January 31.

  • (1907), Border Morning Mail (Albury), May.

  • (1897), Chiltern Leader, March 09.

  • Eustace, A.W., 'Letter’, Burke Museum, Beechworth, Vic.

  • (1865), 'Register of Claims, Indigo division of the Beechworth Mining District 3 April 1865—28 August 1879’, Public Records Office, Melbourne, Vic.

  • (1907), '(obituary)’, Federal Standard (Chiltern), May 31.

  • Information sourced from Callaway, A.

Initial data sources

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

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  • Signwriter (ANZSIC code: 6924)
  • House decorator (ANZSIC code: 6924)
  • Gamekeeper (ANZSIC code: 0529)
  • Shepherd (ANZSIC code: 0529)
  • Musician (ANZSIC code: 9002)
  • Taxidermist (ANZSIC code: 2599)
  • Signwriter (ANZSIC code: 6924)
  • House decorator (ANZSIC code: 6924)
  • Gamekeeper (ANZSIC code: 0529)
  • Shepherd (ANZSIC code: 0529)
  • Musician (ANZSIC code: 9002)
  • Taxidermist (ANZSIC code: 2599)
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Place Chiltern, Vic. Victoria