William Saltonstall Wiseman b. 4 August 1814

  • Artist (Draughtsman)
British sketcher and naval officer who visited Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and New Hebrides in the 1860s. Wiseman recorded the places he visited in ink and grey monotone wash drawings.
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Citations

  • Bach, J. (1986), 'The Australia Station: A History of the Royal Navy in the South West Pacific 1821-1913’, Kensington, New South Wales.

  • (1872), 'Burke’s Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire’, London (and 1896).

  • O’Byrne, W. (1849), 'A Naval Biographical Dictionary’, London, England.

  • (1865), 'Catalogue of Curiosities from the South Sea Islands Exhibited by Commodore Sir W. Wiseman, Bart., C.B., H.M.S. Curaçoa’, Sydney, New South Wales.

  • (31 March 1829), Sydney Gazette.

  • 'Naval Lists’, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney.

Initial data sources

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

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