Charles Style Akers b.

  • Artist (Draughtsman),
  • Artist (Painter)
English colonial Royal engineer whose watercolours and drawings of Tasmanian scenery belied his frustration at having received such a far-flung posting. He later painted icebergs when ordered to go to Canada.
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Citations

  • Mander-Jones, P. (1972), 'Manuscripts in the British Isles relating to Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific’, Canberra, ACT.

  • (c.1855), 'Maidstone’, Kent Archives Office, England, UK.

  • Information sourced from Stilwell, G.T.

Initial data sources

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

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References [<ExternalResource: Mander-Jones, P. (1972), 'Manuscripts in the British Isles relating to Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific', Canberra, ACT.>, <ExternalResource: (c.1855), 'Maidstone', Kent Archives Office, England, UK.>, <ExternalResource: Information sourced from Stilwell, G.T.>]