William Swainson b. 8 October 1789

  • Artist (Printmaker),
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Natural history artist, illustrator, lithographer, naturalist and commissary. McMillan considers that 'His botanical work is unimportant; his claim to remembrance rests upon his zoological work and upon his fine zoological illustrations'.

Citations

  • Stephens, L.; and Lee, S., (eds.), 'Dictionary of National Biographies’, London, England, UK : 22 volumes.

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

  • Hoare, M. (1981), 'Botany and society in Eastern Australia’, Sydney, NSW : in People and Plants in Australia, (Carr, D.; & Carr, S.).

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

  • McMillan, N. (1976), 'William Swainson’, New York, USA : in Dictionary of Scientific Biography, [Gillespie, C. (ed.)], 16 volumes.

  • Mallalieu, H. (1976), 'Dictionary of British Watercolour Artists up to 1920’, Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK.

  • Mander-Jones, P. (1972), 'Manuscripts in the British Isles Relating to Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific’, Canberra, ACT.

  • Platts, U. (1980), 'Nineteenth Century New Zealand Artists’, Christchurch, NZ.

  • (1980), 'Australian Colonial Art’, Melbourne, Vic : Deutscher Fine Art catalogue, April-May 1980.

  • (1979), 'Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Australian Art’, Melbourne, Vic : Deutscher Fine Art Gallery catalogue, July-August 1979.

  • Swainson, William (c.1834), 'The Birds of Brazil and Mexico’, Londn, England, UK : (1834-35).

Initial data sources

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