George Austin Woods

  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Sketcher and sailor, was a lieutenant on board HMS Victoria which assisted the 1861 expedition to search for Burke and Wills led by William Landsborough. Two watercolour coastal views remain. While working as a seaman on the Carl, Woods was sent from Fiji to Sydney as a prisoner.

Citations

  • (1862), 'Journal of Landsborough’s Expedition from Carpentaria in search of Burke and Wills’, Melbourne, Victoria.

Initial data sources

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