John Carter Northcote b. 1817

  • Artist (Draughtsman)
A sketcher, art teacher and publican. He turned to teaching after an unsuccessful business venture. He taught privately, at H.M. Pike's Hobart City Drawing School, Hutchin's School and the Board of Education.
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sketcher, art teacher and publican, was an early arrival on the Bendigo goldfields, Victoria, in 1851. He made a watercolour of the Derwent Store owned by C.A. Ross & Co. in about 1853 (Bendigo Art Gallery). Northcote stayed at Bendigo for a number of years before leaving for Tasmania and entering into a partnership in an unsuccessful timber business. He then turned to teaching drawing. Between July and November 1862 his pupils included Fanny Davenport and her sisters. He was listed as the drawing master at H.M. Pike’s Hobart Town City School in 1864 and 1879 and also employed as a teacher of drawing by the Board of Education and the Hutchins School (c.1870). An attributed watercolour of Holy Trinity Rectory, Hobart (n.d., Christ College, University of Tasmania) is one of his few known Tasmanian works. Plagued by failing eyesight, Northcote was forced to give up teaching and ended his working life as manager of the Hobart Town Royal Exchange Hotel.

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References [<ExternalResource: Hall, D. & Cusack, F. (1984), 'Colonial Bendigo', Bendigo Art Gallery catalogue, Bendigo, Vic.>, <ExternalResource: Davenport, F.M., 'Diaries', Archives Office of Tasmania, Hobart, Tas. (January 1860- September 1878) NS144/2/4 24.>, <ExternalResource: Information sourced from Curnow, Heather.>, <ExternalResource: Information sourced from Stilwell, G.T.>, <ExternalResource: Information sourced from Glover, M.>]