portraitist, draughtsman and conman, was a Van Diemen’s Land expiree committed for trial in 1848 for defrauding, 'to a considerable extent’ his Melbourne employers, ironmongers Richardson & White. The Port Phillip Patriot and Morning Advertiser reported that after his arrival in Melbourne and before his employment as a shopman, 'he professed to be an artist, and went about taking likenesses’. Described as apparently forty-five years of age, of a fresh complexion with a prominent nose, he might frequently have been seen dressed in a pepper and salt colour Taglioni with a blue cloth cap and invariably a portfolio under his arm, his appearance was that denominated “shabby genteel”, in speech he was very plausible, and what is termed wide awake.
The reporter believed he had been briefly employed as a draughtsman in the Survey Office.
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