watercolour and scene-painter, produced watercolour landscapes and sketches of Aborigines in South Australia. 'He exhibited his work at the Chamber of Manufactures and many local exhibitions; he also turned his brush to the production of Theatre Scenes’ – and he died in poverty at the age of sixty-three. Blacks in Full War Dress and Greenhill Road, Hazlewood Park (both undated watercolours) are in the Art Gallery of South Australia. Aborigines in a Landscape was sold at Melbourne in 1974 and Aboriginals on the Murray River (1878) at Sydney on 29 May 1989. Other oil paintings of Aborigines (possibly of the 1890s) have also appeared on the art market.
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