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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associate of
Joseph Banks
1748
Artist (Draughtsman)
associate of
Herman Diedrich Spring
1745
Artist (Draughtsman), Artist (Painter)
associate of
George Tobin
1745
Artist (Draughtsman), Artist (Painter)

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