William Harrison Craig

  • Artist (Painter)
Painter and convict. He was rewarded with paint and drawing materials for freeing captured soldiers.

Citations

  • Rienits, R.; and Rienits, T. (1963), 'Early Artists of Australia’, Sydney, NSW.

  • Hackforth-Jones, J. (1977), 'The Convict Artists’, Melbourne, Vic.

  • Tasmania : Home Office, Criminal Convicts.

  • 'Register of Pardons and Tickets of Leave’, New South Wales : New South Wales Colonial Secretary.

  • New South Wales : Home Office, Criminal Convicts.

See also

  • 'Table Mountain and Part of the Harbour and Town of Hobart in Van Dieman's Land, 1815, watercolour, 15.5x32cm, Mitchell Library.'.

Initial data sources

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