Charles Henry Theodore Costantini b. c.1803

Also known as Count T. Catalini, C. H. Theodore Constantini, C. H. Theodore Costantine, C. H. Theodore Constantine
  • Artist (Printmaker),
  • Artist (Painter)
Portrait and landscape painter, lithographer and surgeon. Born in Paris, he was twice sentenced to transportation to Australia. He resided in New South Wales and Tasmania and there remains about sixty of his works on record.
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Citations

  • de Bougainville, H. (1837), 'Journal de la Navigation autour du Globe de la Frégate La Thétis et de la Corvette L’Espérance’, volume 1, Paris, France.

  • Curnow, Heather (1997), 'Island Exile: CHT Costantini’, Hobart, Tasmania: Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts, State Library of Tasmania.

  • Hackforth-Jones, Jocelyn (1977), 'Convict Artists of Australia’, Melbourne, Victoria.

  • Lloyd, C. and Sekuless, P. (1980), 'Australia’s National Collections’, Melbourne, Victoria.

  • Martin, C. (1982), 'The Martins’, Mornington, Victoria.

  • Stilwell, G. T. (1975), 'Convict Artists of Van Diemen’s Land’, Hobart, Tasmania.

  • Tanner, H. (1979), 'The Art of Gardening in Colonial Australia’, Sydney, New South Wales: Australian Galleries Directory Council catalogue.

  • Archives Office of Tasmania, Hobart.

  • Information sourced from Fahy, Kevin.

  • Stilwell, G. T. (1984), 'C.H.T. Constantini’, Craig, C., More Old Tasmanian Prints, Launceston, Tasmania.

  • Information sourced from Lennon, Jane.

  • Curnow, Heather (1998), 'C.H.T. Costantini – Island Exile’, Australian Antique Collector 54th edn (Dec 1997-June 1998), pp.84-87.

  • Curnow, Heather (2002), '[cats 3-4]’, Hurst, Nevin [Curnow, Heather (researcher)], Masterpiece Art Gallery, Australian Artists Colonial to Contemporary: A Spring Exhibition, Sept-Oct, Hobart, Tasmania.

See also

  • '(a trompe l'oeil watercolour), c.1847, 51.9x40.9cm, City of Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Victoria'.

Initial data sources

  • DAA with additions

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