A sketcher, harbour master and godson of the eminent cartoonist George Cruikshank, he made pen and ink and watercolour sketches of Fremantle and Rottnest Island.
A painter, possibly not Australian, who signed and dated (1883) an amateurish oil painting of an English-style parish church with a southern churchyard.
Federation era art student at Sydney Technical College, whose 'Seascape' was illustrated in the book 'A Quarter Century of Technical Education in NSW'.
A convict artist transported on the First Fleet, Fowkes is a candidate for identification as the 'Port Jackson Painter' and is best remembered for his ...