Captain Otway

Also known as Robert Jocelyn Otway, Tufts
  • Artist (Painter)
Painter and Royal Naval officer who may have been the original artist of 'Native about to throw a spear at kangaroos' held at the NLA. He may have been the pseudonymous artist, 'Tufts', or he may have copied the painting from Tufts's illustration.
creator of
Native about to throw a spear at kangaroos
Date

painting inscribed verso,'Captain Otway R.N. Kooranbond, NSW’; likely to have been copied from 'Tufts’s’ illustration, 'Charley’ spearing Kangaroos’ published in 'Yarra-Guinea’s’ 'Frank Kennedy the Australian Settler’.