James Medland b. 1817 Portsea, Hampshire, England, UK

Also known as James Gould Medland
  • Artist (Painter)
Painter and clergyman. Sent to Tasmania as a Church of England religious instructor.
Talk | Version history | Updated Oct. 19, 2011 | Created Jan. 1, 1992
Name
James Medland
Also known as James Gould Medland
Birth date
1817
Birth place
Portsea, Hampshire, England, UK
Death date
18 February 1899
Death place
Worthing, Sussex, England, UK
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Artist (Painter)
Residence
  • 1846- 1847 Hobart Town, Van Diemen's Land (TAS)
  • 1845- 1846 Brown's River, Van Diemen's Land (TAS)
  • 1844- 1845 Buckland, Van Diemen's Land (TAS)
  • 1850- 1854 Boa Vista, Hobart Town, Van Diemen's Land (TAS)
  • Holy Trinity, Williamstown, Melbourne, Vic.
  • 1854- 1859 Melbourne, Vic.
  • c.1864- c.1865 Iron Church, St Martin's, Kentish Town (Haverstock Hill), London, England, UK
  • c.1861- c.1864 St Matthew's, Bayswater, London, England, UK
  • 1859- 1861 England, UK
  • 1884- 1895 Vicars Road, Haverstock Hill, London, England, UK
  • 1895- 1899 82 Marine Parade, Worthing, Sussex, England, UK
  • Van Diemen's Land, Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania)
Other Occupation
  • Clergyman
Arrival
  • 20 November 1844 (Hobart Town, on board the 'William Jardine')
Active Period
  • c.1844- c.1896
Languages
  • English
Training
  • c.1817- c.1844 Exeter Grammar School, Exeter, England, UK
Is Indigenous
No
Initial Record Data Source
  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870

painter and clergyman, son of Richard and Elizabeth Medland, was baptised on 6 March 1817 in St John’s, Portsea, Hampshire, and educated locally at Exeter Grammar School.

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Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1992
Last updated:
2011
associate of
Alfred Bock
1835
Artist (Photographer), Artist (Printmaker), Artist (Painter)
associate of
Robert Hawker Dowling
1827
Artist (Painter)
associate of
Knud Geelmuyden Bull
1811
Artist (Draughtsman), Artist (Photographer), Artist (Painter)
associate of
Anna Maria Nixon
1802
Artist (Draughtsman), Artist (Painter)
associate of
Fanny Maria Davenport
1849
Artist (Draughtsman)
associate of
Bishop F. R. Nixon
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Bishop Charles Perry
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
child of
Richard Medland
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
child of
Elizabeth Medland
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
spouse of
née Leakey Eliza Medland
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
S. Harvey
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
relative of
James Leakey
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
parent of
Joseph Leakey Medland
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
parent of
Alfred James Medland
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
relative of
Caroline Leakey
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
parent of
Eliza Medland
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Charles Harbottle
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Rev H. P. Fry
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Hobart Town Male House of Correction, Hobart Town, Van Diemen's Land (TAS)
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Buckland Convict Probation Station, TAS
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Brown's River Convict Probation Station, TAS
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Hobart Town Convict Probation Station, TAS
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Brickfield Hiring Depot, TAS
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Holy Trinity, Hobart Town, Van Diemen's Land (TAS)
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Holy Trinity, Williamstown, Melbourne, VIC
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
St Matthew's, Bayswater, London, England, UK
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
St Martin's, Haverstock Hill, England, UK
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Missionary Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, England, UK
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
New Town
Date
1896
View from Cascades
Date
1896
Gladioli
Date
1877
Fruit - A Study
Date
1876
Poppies
Date
1875
On the Derwent
Date
1852
Mount Wellington, Tasmania
Date
1851
In Fern Tree Valley/ The Cascades/ Mar 12/51
Date
c.1851- c.1852
The First Convict Station in the Penal Colony of Tasmania, Mount Direction in the Distance
Date
1848
Boy and Rabbits
Date
1846
Boy and Guinea Pig
Date
1846
(Cabin Scene. time 9 a.m. aboard the Wm Jardine Oct.31. 1844)
Date
1844
Collections
Old Hobart Exhibition
1896
Exhibition ()
Hobart, Tas
Royal Society of British Artists
1875- 1877
Exhibition (exhibited at)
London, England, UK
Hobart Town Art Exhibition
1846
Exhibition (exhibited at)
Hobart Town, Van Diemen's Land (Tas)
Citations:
  • (Register), (Place: (Bishop of Melbourne) Melbourne, Vic.)
  • (1858), (Register of Curates' Licences), (Place: (Bishop of London) London, England, UK)
  • (1843), (SPG Candidates' Papers), (Place: London, England, UK)
  • (1854), (Denison to Grey 5 October 1854), (Place: CO 280/320, October, 5)
  • (Denison to Newcastle 22, 23, 24 November 1853, 13 March 1854), (Place: CO 280/310 11, 317)
  • (1896), Old Hobart, (Place: Hobart, TAS)
  • Robson, L., (1983), A History of Tasmania, (Place: Volume 1, Melbourne, Vic.)
  • Nixon, F., (1852), Substance of a Reply to a Deputation Appointed at a Public Meeting of Members of the Church of England Held in Hobart Town..., (Place: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW)
  • Kolenberg, H. & Kolenberg, J., (1988), Tasmanian Vision, (Place: Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, TAS)
  • Johnson, J., (1975), The Royal Society of British Artists, (Place: Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK)
  • Horner, J., (1974), Caroline Leakey, (Place: Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 5, Pike, D., ed., Melbourne, Vic.)