Frederick Garling b. 23 February 1806

Also known as Junior Frederick Garling
  • Artist (Painter)
Earning his living working at Customs House, Frederick Garling only had early mornings and weekends to spend on his painting yet he was regarded as one of Sydney's most prolific marine painters, painting every ship that visited Sydney.

Citations

  • Moore, William (1934), 'The Story of Australian Art’.

  • McIntyre, J. (1966), 'Frederick Garling’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, 1, Melbourne.

  • Anderson, R. (1986), 'Western Australian Art: The Robert Holmes à Court Collection’, Perth.

  • Campbell, J. (1983), 'Australian Watercolour Painters’, Adelaide.

  • Chapman, B. (1979), 'The Colonial Eye’, Art Gallery of Western Australia catalogue, Perth.

  • Evans, S. (1983), 'Historic Sydney and its Early Artists’, Sydney.

  • McDonald, P. & Pearce, B. (1988), 'The Artist and the Patron’, Art Gallery of New South Wales catalogue.

  • Thomas, Daniel (1973), 'Outlines of Australian Art’, Melbourne.

  • (1854), Illustrated Sydney News, July, 15.

  • (1848), Sydney Morning Herald, August, 14.

  • Walsh, G. (1966), 'Frederick Garling junior’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, 1, Melbourne.

  • Information sourced from Henderson, B.

  • Information sourced from Neville, Richard.

Initial data sources

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