W. Ewart

  • Artist (Painter)
An established landscape and genre painter in England, Ewart painted many prominent citizens of Sydney and Bathurst and advertised himself as a painter who could copy photographic portraits into 'the more permanent form of oil paintings, the size of life or otherwise'.

Citations

  • Buscombe, E. (1978), 'Artists in Early Australia and their Portraits’, Sydney, NSW.

  • Platts, U. (1980), 'Nineteenth Century New Zealand Artists’, Christchurch, NZ.

  • (1861), Bathurst Times, February 06.

  • (1860), Sydney Morning Herald, January 17.

  • Information sourced from Lennon, J.

Initial data sources

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