John Goldfinch

Also known as John Henry Goldfinch
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
A sketcher who drew pencil scenes on Van Diemen's Land, New Zealand and the South Sea islands between 1842 and 1851.
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sketcher, visited Van Diemen’s Land, New Zealand and the South Sea islands between 1842 and 1851, drawing pencil scenes in a sketchbook, including a landscape with Aborigines, a view of Aborigines with barbed spears for fishing standing by a river (possibly the Hunter, near Newcastle, where Goldfinch spent some time) and View from the summit of Jellore (in the Mittagong region of NSW). Other drawings remain in family possession. A letter of 30 December 1841 from his father, Colonel Goldfinch, introducing his son and complaining of a lack of funds for exploration suggests that young Goldfinch was investigating the antipodes with a view to taking up land on his father’s behalf.

John Henry Goldfinch later settled at Lyndhurst in Hampshire, England. His eldest son, Lieutenant Henry Edwards Goldfinch RN, of Rose Bay, Sydney, married Elizabeth Maria, only daughter of Philip Gidley King the younger, at Sydney on 22 March 1882.

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Date written:
1992
Last updated:
2011

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  • Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT (collected in)
  • Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT (collected in)