Robert Lethbridge King b. 1823

  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Like other members of the King family Robert kept a sketchbook of drawings and watercolours. His sketch books, held in the Mitchell Library, contain drawings of Australian fish and crustacea as well as portraits and landscapes.

Citations

  • Cable, K.J. (1976), 'Robert Lethbridge King’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, ed. D. Pike, A. Shaw, M. Clark, B. Nairn, G. Serle and R. Ward, vols 5, Melbourne, Vic.

  • 'King Family Papers [ms 673]’, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW.

Initial data sources

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