Thomas Bird

  • Artist (Painter)
A watercolourist, Thomas Bird painted several Tasmanian landscape scenes that are now held in various collections in Tasmania. There is some uncertainty as to the exact identity of Bird as no artist of this name is known to have been in Tasmania but there are a number of possibilities as to who else it could be.
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Name
Thomas Bird
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Artist (Painter)
Active Period
  • 1850 - 1857
Languages
  • English
Initial Record Data Source
  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870

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Related stub people
  • Bird, E. M. (associate of)
  • Bird, Thomas Fairfoot (associate of)
Related people
  • Meyers, Maximilian (associate of)
  • Bird, Thomas (associate of)
Related works
  • South Arm and the Iron Pot (Lighthouse) from Brown's River (creator of)
  • River Gordon (creator of)
  • Brown's River Beach (creator of)
Related collections
  • Van Dieman's Land Folk Museum, Battery Point, Hobart, Tas. (collected in)
  • Beattie Collection, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, Tas. (collected in)