Richard West Nash b. c.1808

  • Artist (Draughtsman)
With well developed careers as a journalist, lawyer and farmer, it seems that Nash's reputation as an artist, in particular as a sketcher, remains unclear. Nash migrated to Western Australia with his wife in 1839 only to return to England 10 years later.
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Citations

  • 'Irwin Papers’, Battye Library of Australian History, State Library of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Inscription: Elizabeth C. Irwin, from her friend Mr/Mrs Nash.

  • Nash, Richard West (1849), 'Stray Suggestions on Colonization’.

  • Mossenson, D. (1967), 'Richard West Nash’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 2, [Pike, D. (ed.)], Melbourne, University Press, Melbourne, Vic.

  • Chapman, B. (1979), 'The Colonial Eye’, Art Gallery Western Australia, Perth, WA (catalogue).

  • Diver, M. (1936), 'Honoria Lawrence: A Fragment of Indian History’, London, England, UK.

  • (1851), '[Obituary]’, Perth, WA: Inquirer, 04-23.

  • 'Reminiscences of William Wade 1841-50’, Battye Library of Australian History, State Library of Western Australia transcript, Perth, WA.

  • 'Colonial Eye biographical files’, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, WA (Manuscript).

  • Information sourced from Robertson, Lorna.

  • Nash, Richard West (1842), 'Manual for the Cultivation of the Vine and Olive in Western Australia’, Perth, WA.

Initial data sources

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

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