John Allen

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Colonial Tasmanian sketcher and settler. Allen apparently took an early crude sketch of local Aborigines back to England where he had it turned into an oil painting by a professional painter. The painting is now held in the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery.
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References [<ExternalResource: Hansen, David, Hobart, Tas : Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery.>, <ExternalResource: (2000), 'Fine Australian and International Paintings and Australia', Sydney, NSW : Sotheby's, 15-16 August 2000 (lot 322).>, <ExternalResource: Hansen, David, Art Monthly, Date of article unknown. Possibly either December 2002 or December 2003.>]