George Hawthorn

  • Artist (Printmaker),
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Sketcher and port master, lived in Hobart Town from youth. He was active in the local art scene giving lectures and public demonstrations in the 1850s and 1860s.
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sketcher and port master, lived in Hobart Town from youth, having arrived in Van Diemen’s Land about 1830. He was port master from 1856 to 1905. After he had delivered a lecture on the fine arts in 1851, the Tasmanian Colonist stated: 'Mr Hawthorn has received his classical education in Van Diemen’s Land, and may almost be called a native’. In August 1869 Hawthorn took part in a public demonstration of lithography in the schoolroom in Brisbane Street in aid of the Hobart Town Congregational Church fund. The Mercury reported that the lecturer, Major Lloyd Hood , and his chief printer, John Alvarez , produced several lithographic copies of a tree which Hawthorn had drawn on the stone in front of the audience. Sketches by Hawthorn are held in the Allport Library. A copy of the lithographed tree was previously held in a private collection in Tasmania but its location today is unknown.

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Date written:
1992
Last updated:
2011

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