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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Citations

  • Fairholme, George Knight Erskine, 'Fifteen Views of Australia in 1845 by G.K.E.F.’.

Initial data sources

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

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  • Botanist (ANZSIC code: 6910)
  • Explorer (ANZSIC code: 6910)
  • Squatter
  • Author (ANZSIC code: 9002)
  • Palaeontologist (ANZSIC code: 6910)
  • Botanist (ANZSIC code: 6910)
  • Explorer (ANZSIC code: 6910)