Captain Charles Staniforth Hext b. 5 February 1815

  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Sketcher and military officer, he was stationed in Australia twice and sketched local scenes. In about 1845 Charles Hutchins published lithographs from seven of Hext's sketches as "Views in Australia and Tasmania".
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Citations

  • (c.1845), 'Views in Australia and Tasmania’, Charles Hutchins, Liverpool, England, UK, Lithographs from seven of Hext’s sketches.

  • Brown, G.D. (1981), 'Captain Charles Staniforth Hext, Soldier and Artist’, Hobart, Tas.

  • Craig, C. (1964), 'Old Tasmanian Prints, prepared in Great Britain, Europe, and on the mainland of Australia’, Launceston, Tas.

  • Information sourced from Stilwell, G.T.

See also

  • 'After Charles Hext, North View of Eaglehawk Neck, c 1845'.

Initial data sources

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

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Related collections
  • untitled (collected in)
  • Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts, State Library of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS (collected in)
  • University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Vic. (collected in)
  • National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT (collected in)
  • Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • untitled (collected in)
  • Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts, State Library of Tasmania, Hobart, Tas. (collected in)
  • University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Vic. (collected in)
  • National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT (collected in)
  • Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (collected in)