William Neate Chapman b. c.1773

  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Sketcher and public servant, Chapman was a family friend of first Governor Arthur Phillip but it was with Philip Gidley King that he first came to Australia in 1791. Deputy Commissioner at Norfolk Island in the early 1800s, Chapman's few surviving sketches are mostly Norfolk Island landscapes.
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Citations

  • Hunter, John, 'The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay’.

  • Pike, D. (ed.) (1966), 'William Neate Chapman’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 1, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, Vic.

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

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

  • Smith, B. with Wheeler, A. (eds) (1960), 'European Vision and the South Pacific 1768-1850’, Oxford, UK.

  • Smith, B. (1988), 'The Art of the First Fleet’, Oxford, UK.

Initial data sources

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