Captain John A. Gordon

Painter. One of his paintings of an Australian Aborigine displayed in Sydney attracted considerable attention in late 1853.
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painter, had his painting of an Australian Aborigine displayed in F. Mader’s shop window, George Street, Sydney, in late 1853. It attracted considerable attention from passers-by and the Sydney Morning Herald of 7 October 1853 considered 'it can lay claim to outrival any painting of an Australian barbarian which has ever been exposed publicly in Sydney’. If it was, as claimed, the oil painting auctioned at Sotheby’s in November 1998 (lot 81) it was actually a copy of a work by T.T. Balcombe included in Grocott’s 1850 Art Union (now Mitchell Library).

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Date written:
1992
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1989

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