Peter L. Cloete

  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Sketcher and public servant. Resident of the Turon goldfields near Bathurst, NSW.
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sketcher and public servant, drew the pen and ink Erskine Flat Diggings, Turon (Mitchell Library) in about 1856, when he was a sub-gold-commissioner on the Turon goldfields near Bathurst, NSW. The artist may be related to P.L.G. Cloete, the eldest son of Henry Cloete (1792-1870), a judge at Natal, South Africa in the 1840s and early 1850s. P.L.G. Cloete made some watercolours of Natal in the 1840s, including one of Pietermaritzburg (c.1845, Durban Museum).

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Date written:
1992
Last updated:
1989

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