John Skinner Prout b. 19 December 1805

  • Artist (Printmaker),
  • Artist (Painter)
Prout was a painter, lithographer, art teacher and writer. An Australian critic once described his works as 'one of those wild and scattery bits, both in form and colour, which so nearly verge on the grotesque, that they stamp their authors as "genius run mad"'.

Citations

  • Prout, John Skinner (c.1834), 'The Castles and Abbeys of Monmouthshire’.

  • Prout, John Skinner (c.1834), 'Antiquities of Chester’.

  • Prout, John Skinner (c.1834), 'Antiquities of York’.

  • Thomas, D., North, I., & McCarthy F. (1972), 'The Australian Landscape’.

  • Brown, Tony (1984), 'John Skinner Prout, his Tasmanian sojourn 1844-48’, Art Bulletin of Tasmania, Hobart, Tas.

  • Prout, J.S. (1844), 'Journal of a Voyage from Plymouth to Sydney in Australia on board the Emigrant Ship Royal Sovereign, with a Short Description of Sydney’, London, England, UK.

  • Sayers, A. (1989), 'Drawing in Australia’, Canberra, ACT.

  • Solly, N. (1875), 'Memoir of the Life of William Muller’, London, England, UK.

  • Prout, John Skinner (1834), 'Picturesque Antiquities of Bristol’, C. Hullmandel (publisher), London, England, UK.

  • Prout, John Skinner and Rae, John (1842), 'Sydney Illustrated’, Part 1, Sydney, NSW.

  • Prout, John Skinner and Rae, John (1842), 'Sydney Illustrated’, Part 2, Sydney, NSW.

  • Prout, John Skinner and Rae, John (1844), 'Sydney Illustrated’, Part 3, Sydney, NSW.

  • Prout, John Skinner and Rae, John (c.1844), 'Sydney Illustrated’, Part 4, Hobart Town, Van Diemen’s Land (Tas.).

  • (1846), Examiner, February, 7.

  • (1862), Launceston Examiner, November, 11.

  • Brown, Tony, 'John Skinner Prout, a colonial artist’, Art and Australia, vol. 22, no. 4, 1985 (reprinted in Considering Art in Tasmania, Sydney, NSW 1985).

  • Brown, Tony (1986), 'Skinner Prout in Australia 1840-48’, Catalogue, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, Tas. (with full bibliography).

  • Brown, Tony (1986), 'Art exhibitions in Tasmania during the nineteenth century—a chronology’, Art Bulletin of Tasmania, Hobart, Tas.

  • Brown, Tony, 'Lithographic works of John Skinner Prout’, Catalogue raisonné (manuscript in author’s possession).

  • Prout, J. S. (1848), 'The fine arts in Australia’, Art-Union, November, 1, London, England, UK.

  • Prout, J. S. (1850), 'Prout’s Dioramic Views of Australia, Illustrative of Convict and Emigrant Life’, London, England, UK.

  • Prout, J. S. (1862), 'The sketcher in Tasmania’, Once a Week, March, 1, 8.

  • Information sourced from Callaway, A.

Initial data sources

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