Charles Browne Hardwicke b. 2 August 1788

  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Naval officer and settler, the only sketch attributed to him may have in fact been drawn by his fiancée, Elizabeth Chapman. The sketch is of a young Aboriginal girl who had been abducted from the Piper River people.

Citations

  • Pretyman, E.R. (1966), 'Charles Browne Hardwicke’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 1, [Pike, D. (ed.)], Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, Vic.

  • Fletcher, M. (1984), 'Costume in Australia 1788-1901’, Melbourne, Vic.

  • Plomley, B. & Henley, K.A. (1990), 'The sealers of Bass Strait and the Cape Barren Island community’, Proceedings of the Tasmanian Historical Research Association, Volume 27, Number 23 (June-September).

Initial data sources

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