Jorgen Jorgenson b. 7 April 1780

Also known as Jorgen Jorgensen
  • Artist (Draughtsman),
  • Artist (Painter)
Colonial-era sketcher, painter, naval officer, and author, among other things, he lived in Van Diemen's Land variously as a convict and a free man. He illustrated books with his own crudely drawn, yet highly imaginative, black and white neo-classical sketches.
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Citations

  • Jorgenson, J., 'History of the Black War in Van Diemen’s Land’.

  • Jorgenson, J. (c.1809), 'The Adventures of Thomas Walker’.

  • Dally, J. (1967), 'Jorgen Jorgenson’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 2, Pike, D. (ed.), Melbourne, Vic.

  • Hogan, J.F. (ed.) (1891), 'The Convict King, being the Life and Adventures of Jorgen Jorgenson’, Hobart, Tas.

  • Jorgenson, J. (1981), 'A Shred of Autobiography’, Sullivan’s Cove, Tas.

  • Miller, M. (1973), 'Pressmen and Governors’, Sydney, NSW.

Initial data sources

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

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