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sketcher and art teacher, taught art at Maitland, New South Wales in the early 1860s. His metier seems to have been sepia wash drawings. An 'exquisite group of flowers and fruit’ exhibited in 1860 was described by the Maitland Mercury as 'remarkable for its fidelity to nature, its tasteful grouping, and its delicacy of touch. The forms of the fruit stand out in what appears almost tangible rotundity, whilst dewdrops, resting on the surfaces, or trickling down the leaves of the flowers, shine with pearly brightness.’ The following year Dr Horn won a prize for his sepia drawings at the Maitland School of Arts Industrial Exhibition, while his pupils were awarded prizes for their chalk drawings. In 1868 the Sydney Morning Herald praised his drawing of 'the entrance to Newcastle Harbour, with a southerly storm coming up’, especially commending the use of sepia which 'proves him as an artist’.

In 1868 Horn examined the eight members of the drawing class at the Sydney Mechanics Institute conducted by F. Nixon and reported that 'the exhibits prove that the pupils have been very industrious, and that they have been ably instructed, and their gradual and steady progress in work is very apparent’. He was living in Sydney by then. In 1878 he gave a George Street address when showing three watercolours at the Agricultural Society’s annual exhibition: Golden Plover and Quail and two specimens of Croton Leaves . Greenwood and Stephen described his natural history pictures as 'minute in detail, and correct in colour’.

Writers:

Staff Writer

Date written:

1992

Last updated:

2011