John Watt Beattie b. 1859

  • Artist (Photographer)
John Watt Beattie was a collector and photographer in turn-of-the-century Tasmania. Three years before his death in 1930, Launceston City Council purchased his collection of prints, paintings and drawings of Tasmania.

Citations

  • McCulloch, A., Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 1.

  • (1892), Mercury, 03-09, pp. 2,4.

  • Ennis, Helen (2000), 'Mirror with a memory’, National Portrait Gallery catalogue, Canberra, ACT.

  • Information sourced from Stilwell, G.T.

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