James Wilson b. 1804

Also known as James Armstrong Wilson
  • Artist (Painter)
James Armstrong Wilson was a portrait and figure painter born in Scotland. A resident of Sydney and surrounding areas he drowned in a storm with members of his family, and all his books, papers, possessions and paintings. Claimed by his daughter to be the 'first painter in Sydney', Wilson painted the portraits of nearly all the people of note.
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Name
James Wilson
Also known as James Armstrong Wilson
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Artist (Painter)
Other Occupation
  • Cattle owner (ANZSIC code: 014)
  • Farmer (ANZSIC code: 01)
  • Property owner (ANZSIC code: 671)
  • Art teacher (ANZSIC code: 8022)
  • Clerk (ANZSIC code: 7291)
Birth date
1804
Birth place
Hawick, Scotland, UK
Death date
23 June 1852
Death place
Broken Bay, Sydney, New South Wales
Active Period
  • 1838 - 1852
Arrival
  • 1836 (Arrived Australia aboard the 'Fairlie'.)
Residence
  • 1849 - 1852 East Kempsey, NSW
  • 1848 - 1849 97 Hunter Street, Sydney, NSW
  • c.1844 - c.1848 Macleay River, NSW
  • c.1844 - c.1848 Soho Square, London, England, UK
  • 1842 - 1844 Balmain, Sydney, NSW
  • c.1839 - c.1842 Cleveland Street, Sand Hills (Surry Hills), Sydney, NSW
  • c.1839 Huon River settlement, Van Diemen's Land (Tas.)
  • c.1810 - c.1830 London, England, UK
  • October 1838 - 1839 Princes Street, The Rocks, Sydney, NSW
  • c.1836 - c.1838 Bedervale, Braidwood, NSW
  • c.1836 Sydney, NSW
  • c.1804 - c.1836 Hawick, Scotland, UK
Training
  • Cambridge, England, UK
  • c.1810 - c.1830 Oxford, England, UK
  • c.1810 - c.1830 Miss Graham's boarding-school, London, England, UK
Languages
  • English
Initial Record Data Source
  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870

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References [<ExternalResource: Buscombe, Eve (1979), 'Artists in early Australia and their portraits : a guide to the portrait painters of early Australia with special reference to colonial New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land to 1850 with detailed biographies, catalogues of works and sources of Australian portraiture', Sydney, NSW : Eureka Research.>, <ExternalResource: Herman, M. (ed.) (1965), 'Annabella Boswell's Journal', Sydney, NSW.>, <ExternalResource: Chapman, A. (1906), 'The reminiscences of Anne Hale Chapman née Wilson', Sydney, NSW : State Library of New South Wales, Mitchell Library, manuscript (1894-1906).>, <ExternalResource: 'Sydney Mechanics Institute Reports', Sydney, NSW : State Library of New South Wales, Mitchell Library (manuscript A4149).>, <ExternalResource: Buscombe, Eve, 'Who was Mrs Wilson Anyway?', Tasmania : Proceedings of the Tasmanian Historical Research Association, [27/1].>, <ExternalResource: Information sourced from Lennon, J.>]