William B. Dexter b. 1817

Also known as William Bull Dexter
  • Artist (Painter)
William Dexter was a painter. He arrived at Sydney in 1852. Dexter and his wife Caroline opened a 'Gallery of Arts and School of Design' in Sydney where he taught painting and drawing. In 1857 he exhibited with the Victorian Society of Fine Arts.

Citations

  • 'NSW Death Records : 2141/1860’.

  • Morgan, Patrick (1999), 'Folie A Deux: William and Caroline Dexter in Colonial Australia’.

  • Watson, M. J. (April 1984), 'William Dexter (1817-1860): Some new sources for his paintings’, La Trobe Library Journal 9/33, .

  • (1855), 'Bell’s Life in Sydney, 10 March, 7 April, 12 May, 8 Dec’.

  • Wilcox, D. and Moore, W. (February 1931), 'The wife of the artist (Caroline Dexter)’, Art in Australia 36, .

  • Howitt, W. (1855), 'Land, Labour and Gold’, London, (reprint, Kilmore 1972).

  • Ryan, J.S. (1972), 'Caroline Dexter’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 4, ed. D. Pike, A. Shaw, M. Clark, B. Nairn, G. Serle and R. Ward, Melbourne, Melbourne.

  • Bonyhady, T. (1986), 'Australian Colonial Paintings in the Australian National Gallery’, Melbourne, Victoria.

  • Clarke, P. (1988), 'Pen Portraits’, Sydney.

  • Dexter, C. (1857), 'Ladies Almanack 1858: The Southern Cross; or, Australian Album and New Year’s Gift’, Melbourne, Victoria.

  • Haslem, J. (1876), 'Old Derby China Factory: The Workmen and their Productions’, London.

  • McDonald, P. R. and Pearce, B. (1988), 'The Artist and the Patron’, Sydney: Art Gallery of New South Wales catalogue.

  • Watson, M. J. (1976), 'William Dexter: “Forget him was impossible”’, Art and Australia 24/3.

  • (6 February 1891), Table Talk, 4.

  • 'Dexter Papers’, La Trobe Collection, State Library of Victoria, ms 11630.

  • McCulloch, Alan (1984), 'Encyclopedia of Australian Art’, Melbourne, Vic (2nd edn).

  • (1861), Sydney Morning Herald, 25 Feb, 8 March.

  • Information sourced from Bruce, C.

  • Information sourced from Lennon, J.

  • Information sourced from Chapman, W.

  • Information sourced from McDonald, P.R.

Initial data sources

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