Andrew Torning b. 26 September 1814

  • Artist ,
  • Artist (Painter)
'Ballet dancer, pantomimist, gymnast, actor, scene painter, interior decorator, artist, theatre lessee, founder of a fire brigade and its first captain, and Deacon of the Pitt Street Congregational Church, Sydney', so described Eric Irvin about Andrew Torning, the multi-talented colonial artist. Particularly skilled at decorating, he was commissioned to design parts of buildings such as St Mary's.
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Citations

  • 'NSW Death Records : 6042/1900’.

  • (16 April 1900), '(Obituary)’, Sydney Morning Herald, 1880-01-28, 1868-06-29, 1868-06-08, 1868-05-01, 1861-04-12, 1860-12-28, 1858-12-02, 1858-10-23, 1858-09-16, 1858-07-05, 1853-11-23, 1853-05-18, 1853-03-21, 1853-03-18, 1852-10-30, 1852-06-12, 1852-03-11, 1851-11-01, 1851-09-04, 1851-08-27, 1851-08-13, 1851-03-08, 1850-12-19, 1850-11-15, 1850-09-05, 1850-07-02, 1850-06-30, 1850-03-08, 1850-02-16, 1849-06-14, 1848-07-13, 1847-04-09, 1849-09-12, 1843-05-12, 1843-03-20, 1843-03-11, 1842-12-27, 1842-11-02.

  • Adrian, C. (1984), 'Fighting Fire’, North Sydney, NSW.

  • Irvin, E. (1985), 'Dictionary of the Australian Theatre 1788-1914’, Sydney, NSW.

  • (21 April 1900), Evening News.

  • Oppenheim, H. (1824), 'Colonial theatre: The rise of the legitimate stage in Australia 1824-1847’, Sydney, NSW : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, manuscript 3266.

  • 'H. Parkes Correspondence’, Sydney, NSW : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, manuscript, vol. 40.

  • 'Sydney Mechanics School of Arts Records’, Sydney, NSW : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, manuscript A4151.

  • Sydney, NSW : Newspaper cuttings, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales.

  • Information sourced from Oppenheim, H.

Initial data sources

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

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