Mr Jones

Also known as 'Sydney Bird Painter'
  • Artist (Painter)
Natural history painter, apparently executed drawings of 'Birds, Fish, Animals, Plants &c' for General Grose while Grose was Lieutenant-Governor of NSW in 1792-94. There is credible speculation that Jones was the artist known as the 'Sydney Bird Painter.'

Citations

  • Lennon, Jane (1998), 'Second thoughts on first views: The Port Jackson circle 1788-1800’, Australian Journal of Art, 4/1, pp 31-51.

  • Information sourced from Lennon, Jane.

  • Information sourced from Neville, Richard.

Initial data sources

  • DAA with additions