Edward James Howse Knapp b. c.1809

  • Artist (Painter)
A surveyor and sketcher Knapp was known as 'a crack shot, an excellent horseman, and a born bushman'. His work is held in the Mitchell Library and include natural history subjects, landscapes and drawings of his children.

Citations

  • 'Newspaper cuttings’, National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT.

    http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper?q=

  • (1865), ’1865 Legislative Assembly of New South Wales : Minutes of Evidence taken before the Select Committee on the Petition of Mr E.J.H. Knapp’, Sydney, NSW.

  • (1833), Sydney Herald, 06-17.

  • 'T.L. Mitchell to Colonial Secretary 28 December 1829 and R. Darling to R. Hay 6 January 1830, ms A1206’, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW.

  • Cunningham, Alan (1828), 'Report ms A1203’, Despatches, R. Darling, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney.

  • Information sourced from Broadbent, James.

  • Information sourced from Lennon, Jane.

Initial data sources

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