Robert Russell b. 1808

  • Artist (Sculptor),
  • Architect (Architect / Interior Architect / Landscape Architect),
  • Artist (Printmaker),
  • Artist (Photographer),
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Despite Russell's extensive work as a sketcher, amateur photographer, etcher, lithographer, carver, architect and surveyor, he is still better known for his work ethic and attitude. He spent the good part of thirty years shuffling between Sydney and Melbourne, at logger heads with colleague and superiors.

Citations

  • Russell, R. (May 1849), 'The heart’, Canberra, ACT : National Library of Australia, (unpub. romance), May 1849, (Manuscript 571), .

  • Preston, H. (1967), 'Robert Russell’, Melbourne, Vic : Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 2, [Pike, D. (ed.)], Melbourne University Press.

  • McCulloch, A. (1984), 'Encyclopedia of Australian Art’, Melbourne, Vic : Hutchinson of Australia (2nd edn).

  • Moore, William (1934), 'The Story of Australian Art’, Sydney, NSW : Angus and Robertson, 2 volumes, (facsimile reprint, 1980).

  • Newton, G. (1988), 'Shades of Light’, Canberra, ACT.

  • de Serville, P. (1980), 'Port Phillip Gentlemen’, Melbourne, Vic.

  • 'Russell Papers’, Royal Historical Society of Victoria.

  • Newton, G., 'Biographical notes on 9 persons mostly surveyors and explorers’, Sydney, NSW : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales (copy).

  • Tibbits, G.; et al., 'Robert Russell’, Melbourne, Vic : 'Directory of Victorian architects’, University of Melbourne, (Manuscript).

Initial data sources

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