J. W. Ploos Van Amstel b.

Also known as J. W. P. A.
  • Artist (Photographer),
  • Artist (Painter)
Colonial Dutch Consul-General to Victoria who made watercolour sketches and photographs during his travels around Australia.
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Biography <p>sketcher and photographer, is known for a watercolour of a settler's camp, dated 1855, watercolour landscapes and photographs of Aboriginal groups, dated 1860, and several watercolours of Sweers Island, Qld, one dated 1871 (all National Library of Australia [NLA]). Dutch Consul-General who was stationed in Melbourne, Vic, living in St. Kilda in about 1864. </p> <p>

Amstel travelled to Sweers Island, Gulf of Carpentaria, North Queensland on board the steamship Curaçao, in 1871. The NLA has Amstel's book <i>_Verslag eener reis van den Nederlandschen Consul-General to Melbourne, aan boord van Zr. Ms. stoomschip Curacao, langs de oost-en noordkust van Australie, in Julij-October, 1871</i>_ . Amstel was a prolific report writer.</p> <p>

A portrait of Amstel appears in a group portrait wood engraving by <b>*Nicholas Chevalier</b>* , dated July 25, 1863, titled <i>_Farewell banquet to the French Consul</i>_ (State Library of Victoria).</p>