Peter Gordon Fraser b. 31 March 1808

  • Artist (Draughtsman),
  • Artist (Painter)
Critics considered Fraser's work as proof of the healthy state of local art: 'If our amateurs can produce drawings of such feeling and such skill...we shall not despair...' Fraser lived in Tasmania on and off for two decades, working for most of that time as the Colonial Treasurer.
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Citations

  • 'CEN1/52/80’.

  • Prout, J.S. (1862), 'The sketcher in Tasmania’, London, England, UK : Once a Week, 03-01, ALSO: 1862-03-08.

  • Wettenhall, R. (1966), 'Peter Gordon Fraser’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol 1, ed. D. Pike, A. Shaw, M. Clark, B. Nairn, G. Serle and R. Ward, Melbourne, Vic.

  • (1979), 'Images of Children’, Burnie Art Gallery catalogue.

  • (1846), Britannia, 06-18.

  • (1845), Hobart Town Advertiser, 02-14.

  • (1863), Mercury, 01-01.

  • Morton Allport, Mary (1854), 'Diary’, Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts, State Library of Tasmania, Hobart, Tas.

  • 'Fraser correspondence file’, Archives Office of Tasmania, Hobart, Tas.

  • Information sourced from Brown, Tony.

Initial data sources

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

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