Byron Drury b. UK

  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Naval officer and sketcher. Served on the Alligator when the ship was at Port Essington (Northern Territory) in 1838-1839. Later drew a pen-and-ink view, 'Sydney Bay, Norfolk Island' (1852), on a page which also includes a pencil sketch of a sailing ship with the edge of Nepean Island (off Norfolk Island) in the right-hand corner.
Talk | Version history | Updated Oct. 19, 2011 | Created Jan. 1, 1992
Name
Byron Drury
Birth date
Birth place
UK
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Residence
  • c.1838- c.1839 Port Essington, Northern Territory
Other Occupation
  • naval officer
Arrival
  • 1838
Active Period
  • c.1852
Languages
  • English
Is Indigenous
No
Initial Record Data Source
  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870

sketcher and naval officer, son of Rev. Henry Drury, Chaplain of Harrow school, entered the Royal Naval College in 1828. He was serving in the Alligator when the ship was at Port Essington (Northern Territory) in 1838-39. No sketches are known from this time, but Captain Drury later drew a pen-and-ink view, Sydney Bay, Norfolk Island (1852, Dixson Galleries). Included on the page is a pencil sketch of a sailing ship with the edge of Nepean Island (off Norfolk Island) in the right-hand corner.

Drury’s nephews, Albert Victor and Edward Robert, later settled in Queensland.

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Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1992
Last updated:
2011
relative of
Victor Albert Prout
1835
Artist (Photographer), Artist (Painter)
relative of
Edward Robert Hinder
1829
Artist (Draughtsman)
child of
Rev Henry Drury
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
John William Lewin
1770
Artist (Draughtsman), Artist (Painter)
Sydney Bay, Norfolk Island
Date
1852
Collections
Citations:
  • O'Byrne, W., (1849), A Naval Biographical Dictionary, (Place: London)