Herman Diedrich Spring b. c.1733

  • Artist (Draughtsman),
  • Artist (Painter)
A studious man with a talent for detail, he became through default one of the artists aboard Captain Cook's Endeavour. He died young, at sea. Sadly none of the artists survived this voyage.
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Citations

  • Carr, D. (ed.) (1983), 'Sydney Parkinson: Artist of Cook’s Endeavour Voyage’, Canberra, ACT.

  • Joppien, R. and Smith, B. (1768), 'The Voyage of the Endeavour 1768-1771’, vol. 1, The Art of Captain Cook’s Voyages, London, England.

  • Rienits, R. and Rienits, T. (1963), 'Early Artists of Australia’, Sydney, New South Wales.

  • Lysaght, A. (1979), 'Banks’s artists and his Endeavour collections’, The British Museum Yearbook 3: Captain Cook and the South Pacific, London, England.

Initial data sources

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

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