William Paterson b. 17 August 1755

  • Artist (Draughtsman)
William Paterson was a sketcher, natural historian, collector, soldier and lieutenant-governor. He was interested in zoology and is said to have been the first person to take a live giraffe to London.

Citations

  • Paterson, William, 'Narrative of Four Journeys into the Country of the Hottentots and Caffaria’.

  • MacMillan, D., 'William Paterson’, Australian Dictionary of Biography 2, ed. Pike, D., Shaw, A., Clark, M., Nairn, B., Serle, G. and Ward, R. vols 1-6, Melbourne 1966-1976.

  • Gordon-Brown, A. (1975), 'Pictorial Africana’, Cape Town.

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

  • (1927), 'Australia, New Zealand and the South Seas, Africa and the East Indies’, Museum Book Store catalogue, London.

Initial data sources

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