painter, illustrator, etcher, curator, critic and journalist, contributed to Adelaide Punch in 1878-84. He was staff artist on the Adelaide Advertiser and Express in 1893-99, where he used to average about twenty drawings a week, rapidly producing portraits with a chalk plate which he made himself. Once, he told William Moore (ii, 123), he drew and engraved twenty-one portraits in fourteen hours for a rush job. He was also the paper’s art critic for 15 years, but is best known as a landscape and marine painter and the first etcher in SA, acc. Moore. In 1913, when he was director of the Art Gallery of South Australia, he revised H.P. Gill’s AGSA catalogue.
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- Writers:
- Kerr, Joan
- Date written:
- 1996
- Last updated:
- 2007
