Edward Snell b. 27 November 1820

Also known as E. S.
  • Artist (Draughtsman),
  • Artist (Painter)
A successful surveyor and engineer as well as a painter and a sketcher, whose move to Australia was significant to his artistic output, beginning with a sketch diary kept on board the voyage to Adelaide.
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painter, sketcher, surveyor and engineer, was born on 27 November 1820 at Barnstaple, Devon, son of Edward Snell and Elizabeth, née Stothert.

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Date written:
1992
Last updated:
2011

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References [<ExternalResource: Snell, E. (1988), 'The Life and Adventures of Edward Snell: The Illustrated Diary of an Artist, Engineer and Adventurer in the Australian Colonies 1849 to 1859', Sydney, NSW : Griffiths, T. (ed.); with Platt, A. (and bibliography).>, <ExternalResource: 'The life and adventures of E. Snell from 1849 to 1859', Melbourne, Vic : La Trobe Collection, State Library of Victoria, (manuscript).>, <ExternalResource: 'The life and adventures of E. Snell 1842', Manuscript, private collection.>, <ExternalResource: Wright, Alderman George (1857), 'Wattle Blossoms, Some of the Grave and Gay Reminiscences of an Old Colonist', (Illustrations by Snell, Edward).>]