George Jackson

  • Artist (Painter)
Watercolourist and master mariner, was master of the Socrates, which visited Portland, Victoria in about 1836. There he painted a watercolour, 'View of Portland Bay', which is now held in the La Trobe Collection of the State Library of Victoria.

Citations

  • Downer, C. and Phipps, J. (1985), 'Victorian Vision: 1834 Onwards’, National Gallery of Victoria catalogue, Melbourne, Vic.

  • Glover, A. (1980), 'Victorian Treasures from the La Trobe Collection’, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, Vic.

  • (1847), Argus, 11-02.

Initial data sources

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