painter, exhibited four times at London’s Royal Academy between 1846 and 1850 and showed landscape and genre paintings at the British Institution in 1847-52. Leaving for New South Wales soon afterwards, he was in Sydney by 1853 when he painted a portrait of the two daughters of Lady Stephen (Virginia and Jessy), as noted in her journal. In the late 1850s he was at Bathurst painting portraits of prominent local citizens, including oil portraits of the government medical officer Dr George Busby and of Dr Richard Machattie and his wife (Kit-kats in Bathurst Historical Society Museum). By January 1860 Ewart was advertising his services from Sandridge House, Dawes Point, Sydney, as a painter who could copy photographic portraits into 'the more permanent form of oil paintings, the size of life or otherwise’. Then he left for New Zealand. He was working as a portraitist at Auckland in 1861-62. Back at London in 1863 he exhibited Landscape with Cattle (40 guineas) at the British Institution, giving his address as Albermarle Street.
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