John Atkinson

  • Architect (Architect / Interior Architect / Landscape Architect),
  • Artist (Draughtsman),
  • Artist (Painter)
Watercolour painter and drawing master who lived and painted in Van Diemen's Land during the 1830s. In 1833 Atkinson and his wife opened the Stanwell Hall Establishment for Young Ladies where his wife, who taught music, was widely recognised as the family's major breadwinner - extravagent habits and a charge of drunkenness led to Atkinson's resignation as schoolmaster in 1836.
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Citations

  • (1839), Colonial Times, 12-31.

  • (1839), Cornwall Chronicle, 12-21.

  • (1831), Tasmanian, 10-22.

  • 'Colonial Secretary’s Office CSO/535/11653CSO/408/9211, CSO/791/16935, CSO/855/18074, CUS30, HS/349/29, NS/435/1/379,’, Archives Office of Tasmania, Hobart, Tas.

  • 'Burials 120/1839’, Registrar General’s Department.

  • 'Hobart Deaths 1179/1842’, Registrar General’s Department.

  • 'Baptisms 4308/1832’, Registrar General’s Department.

Initial data sources

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

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