George Wingfield Tracy b.

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Tracy was born in Ireland. After arriving in Australia, he joined his brother and a small party to prospect for gold in Adelaide. His only known works are four small, naive paintings of the Castlemaine goldfields.
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sSketcher and, gold-digger, was born in Ire and dentist, Tracy was born in Ipswich, Suffolk, England, a. A son of ThomasJohn Tracy, gdentlemanist, and Elizabeth, née CoghlanMary Tracy, née Fife. He presumobably came to Adelaide with his brother, Dr Richard Thomas Tracy (1826-74), and accompanied him when Richard formed a small party (including James Bonwick) to travel to Victoria from Adelaide on news of the discovMelbourne by ship in 1852 and then travelled around the goldfields of Victoria. It was during this time that he produced a numbery of gold. Castlemaine was the first field they prospected andsmall drawings depicting gold fields life. George Wingfield's only known Tracy's art works arinclude four small, naive paintings of the Castlemaine goldfields: _My Tent, 1852_ , _Diamond Gully, 1853_ , _McIvor, 1854_ and _Anderson's Creek, New Caledonia 1855_ (Pioneers and Old Residents Association, Castlemaine). Although Richard Tracy soon gave up the life of a digger, George Wingfield obviously persisted for some time.¶

This entry is a stub. You can help the DAAO by submitting a biography. small sketch book containing some 84 drawings is held by the State Library of Victoria. Tracy returned to his profession of dentistry and practised for many years in Castlemaine. ¶