John Allen

  • Artist (Draughtsman)
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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Citations

  • Hansen, David, Hobart, Tas : Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery.

  • (2000), 'Fine Australian and International Paintings and Australia’, Sydney, NSW : Sotheby’s, 15-16 August 2000 (lot 322).

  • Hansen, David, Art Monthly, Date of article unknown. Possibly either December 2002 or December 2003.

Initial data sources

  • Legacy data. Source 'unknown'

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Related works
  • The Aborigions [sic] of Van Demonsland [sic] endeavouring to kill Mr. John Allen on Milton Farm in the District of Great Swanport on the 14th of December 1828 (creator of)
  • Drawn at Swansea Town (creator of)
  • The Aborigions [sic] of Van Demonsland [sic] endeavouring to kill Mr. John Allen on Milton Farm in the District of Great Swanport on the 14th of December 1828 (creator of)
  • Drawn at Swansea Town (creator of)
Related collections
  • Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, TAS (collected in)
  • Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, TAS (collected in)
  • Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
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