Sir Thomas Mitchell b. 1792 Falkirk, Stirlingshire, Scotland, UK

Also known as Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell
  • Artist (Painter)
Painter, surveyor and military officer. A resident of Sydney, he made topographical sketches and surveys and painted portraits.
Talk | Version history | Updated Oct. 19, 2011 | Created Jan. 1, 1992
Name
Sir Thomas Mitchell
Also known as Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell
Birth date
15 June 1792
Birth place
Falkirk, Stirlingshire, Scotland, UK
Death date
5 October 1855
Death place
Sydney, NSW
Burial place
Camperdown Cemetery (now the churchyard of St Stephen's, Newtown, NSW).
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Artist (Painter)
Residence
  • c.1827- c.1841 Craigend, Woolloomooloo Hill, Sydney, NSW
  • c.1841- c.1855 Parkhall, NSW (Near Douglas Park. )
  • c.1841- c.1855 'Carthona', Darling Point, Sydney, NSW
Other Occupation
  • Inventor
  • Politician
  • Translator
  • Poet
  • Military officer
  • Surveyor
Arrival
  • 1827
Active Period
  • c.1800- c.1848
Languages
  • English
Training
  • Grangemouth Primary School, Scotland, UK
Is Indigenous
No
Initial Record Data Source
  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870

painter, surveyor and military officer, was born in the parish of Falkirk, Stirlingshire, Scotland, on 15 June 1792.

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Writers:
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Date written:
1992
Last updated:
2011
associate of
Charles Rodius
1802
Artist (Performance Artist), Architect (Architect / Interior Architect / Landscape Architect), Artist (Draughtsman), Artist (Painter)
associate of
Conrad Martens
1801
Artist (Draughtsman), Artist (Printmaker), Artist (Painter)
associate of
Edmund Thomas Blacket
Architect (Architect / Interior Architect / Landscape Architect)
relative of
John Frederick Mann
1819
Artist (Photographer), Artist (Draughtsman)
son-in-law
grandparent of
Gother Victor Fyers Mann
1863
Artist (Painter)
parent of
née Mitchell Camilla Victoria Mann
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
spouse of
née Blunt Mary Mitchell
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
parent of
Alicia Mitchell
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
parent of
Emily Mitchell
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
parent of
Roderick Mitchell
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Sir George Murray
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
John Abbott
1803
Artist (Painter)
associate of
Joseph Backler
1813
associate of
William Kellett Baker
1806
Artist (Printmaker)
associate of
Thomas Tyrwhitt Balcombe
1810
Artist (Printmaker), Artist (Sculptor), Artist (Painter)
associate of
George Barney
1792
Architect (Architect / Interior Architect / Landscape Architect), Artist (Draughtsman)
associate of
Edward Baker Boulton
1812
Artist (Draughtsman), Artist (Painter)
associate of
Syms Covington
1814
Artist (Draughtsman)
associate of
Robert Dixon
Artist (Draughtsman)
associate of
J. Ellis
Artist (Printmaker), Artist (Painter)
associate of
William Henry Fernyhough
1809
Artist (Draughtsman), Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator), Artist (Printmaker)
associate of
John Frederick Mann
1819
Artist (Photographer), Artist (Draughtsman)
associate of
George Peacock
1806
Artist (Painter)
associate of
Amelia Christina Rusden
Artist (Draughtsman)
associate of
Charles James Tyers
1806
Artist (Draughtsman)
Burying ground of Milmeridien, in an acacia scrub
Date
1838
Tombs of Milmeridien
Date
1835
Collections
Royal Geographical Society of Australasia
1948
Exhibition (exhibited at)
Brisbane, Qld.
First Conversazione
1871
Exhibition (exhibited at)
New South Wales Academy of Art, Sydney, NSW
Works shown posthumously.
Citations:
  • Mitchell, Thomas Livingstone, (1838), Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia
  • Wyld, J., (1841), Maps and Plans of the Principal ... Battles ... during the War from 1808 to 1814
  • (1858), Votes and Proceedings of the New South Wales Legislative Council, (Place: Volume 2, 1858-1859)
  • Murray Papers, (Place: National Library, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK)
  • Mitchell Papers, (Place: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW)
  • Couch, B.V., (1963), The administration of Thomas Mitchell 1826-37. A study of the man and his contemporaries, (Place: MA thesis, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW)
  • (1854), Votes and Proceedings of the New South Wales Legislative Council, (Place: Volume 2)
  • Historical Records of Australia, (Place: Series 1, vols 13-26)
  • Kerr, J. and Broadbent, J., (1980), Gothick Taste in the Colony of New South Wales, (Place: Sydney, NSW)
  • Foster, W.C., (1985), Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell and his World 1792-1855, (Place: Sydney, NSW)
  • Finlayson, B., (October 1984), Sir Thomas Mitchell and Lake Salvator: An essay in ecological history, (Place: Historical Studies, Volume 21)
  • Cumpston, J., (1954), Thomas Mitchell, (Place: Melbourne, Vic.)
  • Audley, G., (1866), The Public Surveys of New South Wales, (Place: Sydney, NSW)
  • Baker, D.W.A., (1967), Thomas Livingstone Mitchell, (Place: in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 2, [Pike, D. (ed.)], Melbourne, Vic.)