Mrs F. N. Isaac

  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Sketcher, is known only for a view of early Brisbane, 'Ferry' in 1850, reproduced as an illustration 'From Water Colour Painting by Mrs. F.N. Isaac. She may have been the wife of one of the Isaac brothers. Nothing else is known of the artist.
Talk | Version history | Updated Oct. 19, 2011 | Created Jan. 1, 1992
Name
Mrs F. N. Isaac
Gender
Female
Roles
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Residence
  • 1850 Brisbane, Qld.
Active Period
  • 1850
Languages
  • English
Is Indigenous
No
Initial Record Data Source
  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870

sketcher, is known only for a view of early Brisbane, Ferry in 1850, reproduced as an illustration 'From Water Colour Painting by Mrs. F.N. Isaac (Kindly lent by Sir Hugh Nelson)’ in Tom Petrie’s Reminiscences of Early Queensland (ed. C.C. Petrie, Brisbane 1904). The simple sketch looks across the Brisbane River from Kangaroo Point to the government wharf, the military and convict barracks and the Wickham Terrace windmill. This drawing has not been located and the artist has not been traced. She may have been the wife of one of the Isaac brothers who then owned Gowrie Station, north-east of Toowoomba on the Darling Downs, Queensland. The National Library has an unsigned watercolour of Gowrie Station of about the same date, but this could be by J.G. Sawkins .

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Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1992
Last updated:
2011
associate of
James Gay Sawkins
Artist (Draughtsman), Artist (Painter)
Ferry
Date
1850
Citations:
  • (1904), Tom Petrie's Reminiscences of Early Queensland, (Place: Brisbane, Qld., Petrie, C. C. (ed.))