G. F. Sargent b.

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A professional watercolour painter, from Warwickshire, England. The Mitchell Library holds several of his pen-and-ink views of Melbourne and Sydney done in the 1850s, some of which were engraved by Greatbach in Scotland.
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watercolour painter, was a professional painter from Warwickshire, England who, according to Mallalieu, was regarded as 'too bad to be put to the ballot for the New Watercolour Society [London] in 1854’. Shortly after this disappointment he came to Australia, possibly to try his luck on the goldfields. The Mitchell Library holds several of his pen-and-ink views of Melbourne and Sydney done in the 1850s, some of which were engraved by Greatbach in Scotland.

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1992
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2011

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References [<ExternalResource: Mallalieu, H. (1976), 'The Dictionary of British Watercolour Artists up to 1920', Woodbridge, Suffolk.>, <ExternalResource: Moore, William (1934), 'The Story of Australian Art', Sydney, NSW : Angus and Robertson, 2 vols, (facsimile reprint, 1980).>]