Charles Bonnefin

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An amateur sketcher and naval officer, Captain Charles Bonnefin spent time in New Zealand before settling in New South Wales. Several of his landscape views were exhibited at the 1880 Melbourne International Exhibition.
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sketcher and maritime officer, was the father or brother (both were called Charles) of Louise, wife of Didier Numa Joubert of Hunter’s Hill, NSW. When Louise married Joubert in 1839 the Bonnefins were living in Kororareka, New Zealand. By the 1860s Captain Charles Bonnefin was staying with the Jouberts at Hunters Hill on the Lane Cove River. At the 1880 Melbourne International Exhibition Charles Bonnefin of Lane Cove River, Sydney, showed four drawings in the NSW Court (no.24): Lithgow Valley ; Lane Cove River ; Crossing the Ford ; and Forest Scene, Bulli . An undated pencil sketch of the Hunter’s Hill ferry (Hunter’s Hill Town Hall) and a competent watercolour view of the Jouberts’ paddlewheel steam ferry Kirribilli arriving at Figtree (private collection) are also known.

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Date written:
1992
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1989

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