Charles Hubert De Castella b. 27 March 1825

Also known as Hubert de Castella, Herbert de Castella
  • Artist (Painter),
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Painter, landowner and viticulturalist born in Switzerland. Resident of Yering and Ivanhoe, Vic. for many years. De Castella is credited as being both a talented painter and a pioneer of Victorian viticulture.

Citations

  • (1861), 'Le Tour du Monde’.

  • Castella, Charles Hubert De (1882), 'Notes d’un Vigneron Australien’.

  • Leighton, Stanley, 'Australia’.

  • (1864), Argus, 03-02.

  • Horn, K.A.R. (1969), 'Charles Hubert de Castella’, Melbourne, Vic : Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 3 [Pike, D. (ed.)], Melbourne University Press.

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

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

  • Castella, Charles Hubert De (1886), 'John Bull’s Vineyard: Australian Sketches’, (Reprint Melbourne, Vic., 1981).

  • Castella, Charles Hubert De (1861), 'Les Squatters Australiens’, Paris, France.

  • Information sourced from Bruce, C.

Initial data sources

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