John Watt Beattie b. 1859 Aberdeen, Scotland, UK

  • Artist (Photographer)
John Watt Beattie was a collector and photographer in turn-of-the-century Tasmania. Three years before his death in 1930, Launceston City Council purchased his collection of prints, paintings and drawings of Tasmania.
Talk | Version history | Updated Oct. 19, 2011 | Created Jan. 1, 1999
Name
John Watt Beattie
Birth date
1859
Birth place
Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
Death date
1930
Death place
None
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Artist (Photographer)
Residence
  • 1878- 1927 Tasmania
  • c.1859- c.1878 Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
Arrival
  • 1878 (Tasmania)
Active Period
  • c.1878- c.1927
Languages
  • English
Is Indigenous
No
Initial Record Data Source
  • Legacy data. Source 'unknown'

photographer and collector was born in Aberdeen, Scotland 1859; arrived Tasmania 1878; collected prints, paintings and drawings of Tasmania bought by the Launceston City Council in 1927.

Purchased Anson Bros photographers.

Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery (TMAG) has photographs: one of horse-drawn waggons and another of a bullock-drawn cart decorated for a parade c.1919. Also TMAG purchased in 1989-90 12 full plate gold-toned photos on glass of the East Coast c.1900 by J.W. Beattie, mounted on original frame, from the Gordon Highlander Hotel, Sorell. Also 4 photos by Beattie of the interior of TMAG 1902, donated to TMAG by Mrs F.V. Thomson, Bull Creek, WA. Many copies of earlier photos were sold by him, e.g. Nixon and Woolley photographs of the Tasmanian Aboriginal people.

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Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1999
Last updated:
2011
associate of
Charles Alfred Woolley
1834
Artist (Draughtsman), Artist (Photographer)
associate of
Joshua Anson
1854
Artist (Photographer)
associate of
Nixon
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Haughton Forrest
1826
Artist (Painter)
associate of
John Mitchel
1815
Artist (Photographer), Artist (Draughtsman)
associate of
Godfrey Charles Mundy
1804
Artist (Draughtsman)
associate of
Elizabeth Acworth Prinsep
1804
Artist (Painter)
Collections
Citations:
  • Ennis, Helen, (2000), Mirror with a memory, (Place: National Portrait Gallery catalogue, Canberra, ACT)