Sydney Parkinson b. c.1745

  • Artist (Painter)
Sydney Parkinson was a natural history and topographical painter. Joseph Banks took him on Cook's Endeavour voyage to the Pacific (1768-71) where he was a natural-history draughtsman. Parkinson died of fever and dysentery at sea in 1771. He was only twenty-six.
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exhibited at
Free Society of Artists' exhibition
Date
1765
Place
London, England, UK
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Type
Exhibition

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  • British Museum, London, England, UK (collected in)
  • National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT (collected in)
  • British Museum, London, England, UK (collected in)
  • National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT (collected in)