J. Harrison

  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Portraitist, has had pencil profile portraits of Tasmanian residents attributed to him. Active in the late 1840s and mid 1850s.
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portraitist, has had pencil profile portraits of John Cameron, Mrs John Cameron and other Tasmanian residents attributed to him. Portraits of Thomas James and Sarah Crouch inscribed on the back 'by J. Harrison’ and dated May 1848 suggest little professional expertise, even though Harrison may have taught their daughter Annie drawing. At the 1858 Hobart Town Art-Treasures Exhibition Harrison’s portraits of a child and 'Lady’ lent by Governor Sir Henry Edward Fox Young were called 'Two very beautiful crayon [pastel] drawings’. A coloured pencil portrait of Robert Young, drawn at 6½ yrs , dated 18 June 1854, from a private Tasmanian collection was offered by Masterpiece Art Gallery in September 2002 (cat.6) and may be the former. Later he may have worked in Melbourne; one J. Harrison was listed as an artist in Sands & McDougall’s Melbourne Directory for 1874.

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Date written:
1992
Last updated:
1989

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