James Gay Sawkins

  • Artist (Draughtsman),
  • Artist (Painter)
James Gay Sawkins was a landscape, portrait and genre painter. He was a skilful, precise draughtsman with a special interest in rock formations and other natural phenomena.
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Citations

  • Forster, H (September 2000), 'The Adventures of a Whaling Surgeon’, Canberra, ACT : National Library of Australia News, p.7, .

See also

  • 'IMAGES: Queen Charlotte of Tongatabu c.1854, watercolour, Rex Nan Kivell Collection (NK6298/19) Pictorial Collection (T1501), NLA reproduced in H. Forster, 'The Adventures of a Whaling Surgeon', National Library of Australia News, September 2000, p. 7.'.

Initial data sources

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

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