Henry Butler Stoney b. County Mayo, Ireland

  • Artist (Draughtsman)
An Irishman who spent time in Tasmania on a posting to Australia with the British Army.
Talk | Version history | Updated Oct. 19, 2011 | Created Jan. 1, 1992
Name
Henry Butler Stoney
Birth date
Birth place
County Mayo, Ireland
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Residence
  • Wyvenhoe, Tasmania (Near Burnie. )
  • Dublin, Ireland
Arrival
  • 1853
Active Period
  • c.1853- c.1856
Languages
  • English
Training
  • Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
Is Indigenous
No
Initial Record Data Source
  • DAA with additions

sketcher, was born in County Mayo, Ireland. Educated at Trinity College, Dublin, he became an officer in the British Army and was posted to Australia in 1853, stationed in Tasmania. During the posting, he purchased land at Wyvenhoe, near Burnie in northeast Tasmania. Said to have been fond of sketching, he had a number of his Tasmanian sketches worked into engravings after he returned to England in 1855 to be illustrations in a reprint of his book, A Year in Tasmania, 1853-54 (Hobart, 1854). An engraving of his Wyvenhoe property appears as a title-page vignette in the London version, Henry Butler Stoney, A Residence in Tasmania, with a descriptive tour through the island… London, 1856. The oil landscape painting, Wyvenhoe, Tasmania , he commissioned from the Irish artist John Day, dated 1856, may have been copied from the engraving. It was sold in 2002 by Masterpiece Fine Art Gallery, cat.10.

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Writers:
Kerr, Joan
Date written:
1992
Last updated:
1989
associate of
John Day
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Mr Lake
Artist (Draughtsman)
sibling of
Emily Macarthur
1806
Artist (Painter), Artist (Draughtsman)
parent of
Emily Macarthur
1806
Artist (Painter), Artist (Draughtsman)
Citations:
  • Stoney, Henry Butler, (1856), A Residence in Tasmania, with a descriptive tour through the island ..., (Place: London, England, UK)
  • Stoney, Henry Butler, (1854), A Year in Tasmania, 1853-54, (Place: Hobart, Tasmania)
  • Craig, C., (1964), Old Tasmanian prints, prepared in Great Britain, Europe, and on the mainland of Australia, (Place: Launceston, Tasmania : Foot and Playsted; distributed by Fuller's Bookshop, Hobart, Tasmania)
  • Curnow, Heather; in Hurst, Nevin, (2002), Masterpiece Fine Art Gallery Australian Artists Colonial to Contemporary: A Spring Exhibition, (Place: Hobart, Tasmania : exhibition catalogue)