Sir Thomas Mitchell b. 15 June 1792

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.

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’.

  • Finlayson, B. (October 1984), 'Sir Thomas Mitchell and Lake Salvator: An essay in ecological history’, Historical Studies, Volume 21, .

  • Baker, D.W.A. (1967), 'Thomas Livingstone Mitchell’, in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 2, [Pike, D. (ed.)], Melbourne, Vic.

  • Audley, G. (1866), 'The Public Surveys of New South Wales’, Sydney, NSW.

  • Cumpston, J. (1954), 'Thomas Mitchell’, Melbourne, Vic.

  • Foster, W.C. (1985), 'Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell and his World 1792-1855’, Sydney, NSW.

  • Kerr, J. & Broadbent, J. (1980), 'Gothick Taste in the Colony of New South Wales’, Sydney, NSW.

  • 'Historical Records of Australia’, Series 1, vols 13-26.

  • (1854), 'Votes and Proceedings of the New South Wales Legislative Council’, Volume 2.

  • Couch, B.V. (1963), 'The administration of Thomas Mitchell 1826-37. A study of the man and his contemporaries’, MA thesis, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW.

  • 'Mitchell Papers’, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW.

  • 'Murray Papers’, National Library, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.

  • (1858), 'Votes and Proceedings of the New South Wales Legislative Council’, Volume 2, 1858-1859.

  • Information sourced from Newton, Gael.

  • Mitchell, Thomas Livingstone (1848), Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia.

Initial data sources

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