sketcher and public servant, second son of Rev. and Mrs Peter Campbell, came to Van Diemen’s Land with his parents in about 1839. Employed first by the Bank of Australasia, he joined the Treasury in 1852 and remained with that department until his death in Hobart Town on 28 March 1868. On 3 December 1859 he was married to Mary Ann Norris in a Presbyterian ceremony at Stoney Creek, near Hobart.
Campbell was a committee member and subscriber to the 1858 Hobart Town Art-Treasures Exhibition but exhibited none of his own art. His only known works are four undated pencil sketches (c. 1860): The Rocks, Bellerive Bluff and a tree study (Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts) and two drawings in a private collection (NSW). An unverified note by his great-great-nephew, Henry Allport, states that J.P. Campbell was a pupil of T.E. Chapman. He was also a friend of W.C. Piguenit.
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- Writers:
- Glover, Margaret
- Date written:
- 1992
- Last updated:
- 2011
