John Skinner Prout b. 19 December 1805

  • Artist (Printmaker),
  • Artist (Painter)
Prout was a painter, lithographer, art teacher and writer. An Australian critic once described his works as 'one of those wild and scattery bits, both in form and colour, which so nearly verge on the grotesque, that they stamp their authors as "genius run mad"'.
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Citations

  • Prout, John Skinner (c.1834), 'The Castles and Abbeys of Monmouthshire’.

  • Prout, John Skinner (c.1834), 'Antiquities of Chester’.

  • Prout, John Skinner (c.1834), 'Antiquities of York’.

Initial data sources

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

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Related person groups
  • Sydney Mechanics School of Arts (associate of)
  • New Society of Painters in Water Colours (associate of)
  • Sydney's Olympic Theatre (associate of)
  • Melbourne Mechanics Institute (associate of)
  • Sydney Mechanics School of Arts (associate of)
  • New Society of Painters in Water Colours (associate of)
  • Sydney's Olympic Theatre (associate of)