Prévost

Also known as Prévost ((Oncle))
  • Artist (Draughtsman) , (Painter)
The first names of the Prévosts (uncle and nephew), are not known. They pursued similar life courses as naturalists, sailing with the La Pérouse expedition. Tragically they never returned to France to relate their experiences, presumably lost with their ships, wrecked after leaving Australia.
Talk | Version history | Updated Oct. 19, 2011 | Created Jan. 1, 1992
Name
Prévost
Also known as Prévost ((Oncle))
Death date
c.1788
Death place
None
Death note
Off Vanikoro Island.
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
  • Artist (Painter)
Other Occupation
  • Botanical draughtsman
  • Natural historian
Active Period
  • c.1785- c.1787
Languages
  • French
Is Indigenous
No
Initial Record Data Source
  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870

natural historians, painters and sketchers, were appointed botanical draughtsmen to the ill-fated La Pérouse expedition. Prévost senior sailed in L’Astrolabe , his nephew in La Boussole . Some of their drawings from the earlier part of the expedition (1785-87) were reproduced in the Atlas volume of Voyage de La Pérouse autour du Monde (Paris, 1798). No Australian works survive and the Prévosts presumably perished when the two ships were wrecked off Vanikoro ( see Duché de Vancy ).

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Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1992
Last updated:
2011
associate of
Duché de Vancy
Artist (Painter), Artist (Draughtsman)
Citations:
  • (1987), First Views of Australia, (Place: Sydney, NSW [McCormick, T. (ed.)])
  • Brosse, J., (1983), Great Voyages of Exploration, (Place: Lane Cove, NSW [Hochman, S. (trans.)])