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sketcher and pastoralist, was born in Anstruther, Fifeshire, Scotland in March 1816. After the death of his father he decided to take up sheep-farming in the Port Phillip district of New South Wales (now Victoria). He arrived at Melbourne in the Midlothian on 15 June 1839 and took up land in the Green Hill Creek district in 1840, naming his property Nareeb Nareeb. Gray seems to have indulged in occasional sketching after marrying the talented artist Elizabeth Sharpe ( Elizabeth Gray ) in 1857. He contributed watercolour views of Schnapper Point to the 1866 Melbourne Intercolonial Exhibition – the same subject as his wife was exhibiting – so they presumably went sketching together. Mrs Gray showed three of her husband’s pen-and-ink drawings at the same exhibition, View of Queenscliff , Study Beech Trees and Gerard Dow’s Mother , and four untitled pen-and-ink sketches were catalogued as being drawn and exhibited by Charles Gray of Drummond Street, Ballarat.

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Date written:

1992

Last updated:

2011