botanical artist, botanist and teacher, was born at Norwich, Norfolk (England) in April 1803. He came to Sydney in 1842 where he worked as a teacher, studying botany in his spare time and collecting specimens for overseas museums. He was a friend of the explorer Ludwig Leichhardt and is said to have helped prepare Leichhardt’s Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia (London 1847) for the press.
Phillips was a competent botanical artist, as is evident from the pictorial annotations in his copy of Brown’s Flora Novae Hollandiae . He is reported to have made the 'excellent’ botanical drawings which the government botanist, Charles Moore, used to illustrate a series of lectures he gave at the Sydney Botanic Gardens in the 1850s.
Phillips died at Sydney in June 1871.
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- Date written:
- 1992
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- 2011
