George Knight Erskine Fairholme b. 1822

  • Artist (Draughtsman),
  • Artist (Painter)
Described by his contemporaries as 'the most handsome man ever to come through Cunningham's Gap', the watercolourist and polymath George Fairholme had a fairytale life. Without wealth or property of his own, he worked for friends droving sheep before inheriting two properties. He subsequently travelled to Europe, met and married an Austrian baroness, and lived for the rest of his life between Sco
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associate of
Ludwig Leichhardt
1812
Artist (Draughtsman)
associate of
Conrad Martens
1801
Artist (Draughtsman), Artist (Printmaker), Artist (Painter)
relative of
Duke of Atholl
Other occupation
grandchild of
Lord Forbes
Other occupation
associate of
Edward Pretty
Other occupation
associate of
Walter Leslie
Other occupation
spouse of
Baroness Pauline Poellnitz-Frankenberg
Other occupation
associate of
Lord Henry John Douglas-Scott-Montagu
1822
Artist (Painter)
associate of
John Haig
1822
Artist (Painter), Artist (Photographer)

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References [<ExternalResource: Fairholme, George Knight Erskine, 'Fifteen Views of Australia in 1845 by G.K.E.F.'.>, <ExternalResource: (1837), 'Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry', London, England, UK.>, <ExternalResource: Evans, S. (1982), 'Historic Brisbane and its Early Artists', Brisbane, Qld.>, <ExternalResource: Hall, T. (1925), 'The Early History of Warwick District and Pioneers of the Darling Downs', Toowoomba, Qld.>, <ExternalResource: Leichhardt, L. (1968), 'The Collected Letters', Cambridge, England, UK.>, <ExternalResource: Steele, J. G. (1978), 'Conrad Martens in Queensland', Brisbane, Qld.>, <ExternalResource: Commissioner of Crown Lands, 'Letterbook 1843-48', (Darling Downs area of NSW), Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW.>, <ExternalResource: 'Macarthur Papers', Manuscripts, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW.>] [<ExternalResource: Fairholme, George Knight Erskine, 'Fifteen Views of Australia in 1845 by G.K.E.F.'.>]