John De Mansfield Absolon b. 1843

  • Artist (Painter)
This artist's son operated the Geraldton Lead Mines and international cargo ships. His watercolour works included landscape sketches and scenes of shipboard life, studies of flora and fauna and bush scenes, notably views from his home east of Perth, WA.
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Citations

  • Chapman, B. (1979), 'The Colonial Eye’, Catalogue, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, WA.

  • Colligan, Mimi (2002), 'Canvas Documentaries’, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, VIC.

  • Erickson, R (1988), 'The Bicentennial Dictionary of Western Australians pre 1829/1888’, Nedlands , WA.

  • McCulloch, Alan (1984), 'Encyclopedia of Australian Art’, Melbourne, VIC, 2nd edition.

  • Wood, C. (1978), 'Dictionary of Victorian Painters’, Woodbridge, Suffolk, England, UK.

  • (1879), Western Australian Times, 05-09.

  • (1879), Herald, 05-10.

Initial data sources

  • DAA with additions

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