William Phillips b. April 1803

  • Artist (Draughtsman)
William Phillips was a botanical artist, botanist and teacher. He was a friend of the explorer Ludwig Leichhardt. It is said that Phillips helped prepare Leichhardt's Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia (London 1847) for the press.

Citations

  • 'NSW Death Records : 746/1871’.

  • Information sourced from Lennon, J. Royal Society of NSW: Journal and Proceedings, no. 55, Maiden, J. (1921), 'Records of Australian botanists’.

  • Gibbney, H.J. & Smith, A.G. (1987), 'A Biographical Register 1788-1939’, Canberra.

  • Information sourced from Lennon, J.

Initial data sources

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