Thomas Evans Chapman b. c.1789

  • Artist (Draughtsman),
  • Artist (Printmaker),
  • Artist (Painter)
Painter, art teacher, lithographer and public servant in Hobart, Tasmania. Chapman was not only one of early Tasmania's most prolific, competent and detailed sketchers but since he labelled, dated and signed virtually everything his work offers 'a wonderfully valuable record of the past'.

Citations

  • Allport, H. (1966), 'Thomas Evans Chapman’, Melbourne, Vic : Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 1, [Pike, D. (ed.)], Melbourne University Press.

  • Kolenberg, H.; and Kolenberg, J. (1988), 'Tasmanian Vision’, Hobart, Tas : Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery catalogue.

  • McCulloch, Alan (1984), 'Encyclopedia of Australian Art’, Melbourne, Vic : Hutchinson of Australia (2nd edition).

  • Moore, William (1934), 'The Story of Australian Art’, Sydney, NSW : Angus and Robertson, (Facsimile reprint 1980), 2 vols.

  • Allport, H. (1931), 'Early Art in Tasmania’, Hobart, Tas.

  • Craig, C. (1961), 'Engravers of Van Diemen’s Land’, Launceston, Tas.

  • (1840), Hobart Town Courier, 07-14.

See also

  • 'Campbell Street, Hobart Town. Showing the Theatre Royal and the Treasury, no date, pencil, 17.6x26.4cm, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery.'.

Initial data sources

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