John Webster b. 30 June 1818

  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Webster produced sketches during the voyage of the 'Wanderer' in 1851. These were later worked up by George French Angas into twenty-five watercolours, intended as illustrations to Webster's book of the voyage.

Citations

  • Sheat, A. (May 1957), 'Benjamin Boyd’s ill-fated expedition to Guadalcanal’, Pacific Islands Monthly, .

  • Sheat, A. (May 1957), 'Benjamin Boyd’s ill-fated expedition to Guadalcanal’, Pacific Islands Monthly, .

  • Scholefeld, G. (ed.) (1946), 'Dictionary of New Zealand Biography’, Wellington, New Zealand.

  • Webster, J. (1908), 'Reminiscences of an Old Settler in Australia and New Zealand’, New Zealand.

  • Information sourced from Lennon, Jane.

  • Information sourced from Sun, E.

Initial data sources

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