James Edward Neild b. 1824

Also known as Christopher Sly, Grumbler, Jaques, Tahite, Cleofas, I, Dr James Edward Neild
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Neild was mainly a weekend sketcher whose sketchbooks predominantly included drawings of places around Melbourne. He is most renowned as a journalist and critic writing under various pseudonyms.
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Citations

  • Love, Harold, 'Information sourced from’.

  • Colligan (27 February 1902), 'Table Talk’.

  • Gandevia, B. (1966), 'James Edward Neild’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, Voumels 1-6, Melbourne, Vic.

  • Love, H. (1981), 'Golden Age of Australian Opera’, Sydney, NSW.

  • (1988), 'Miska Hauser’s Letters from Australia 1954-1858’, Roderick, C. and Anderson, H., eds., Maryborough, Victoria.

  • Stewart (1984), 'Theatre Critics and Society’, Love, Harold, ed., The Australian Stage – A Documentary History, UNSW Press, Sydney, NSW, page 47.

  • Hooker, William (1820), 'Letters 1857-1860 [ms]’, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW.

  • Taylor, F., 'Notes on Dr James Edward Neild and his descendants’, ms 8105, La Trobe Collection, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, Vic.

  • Neild, J.E., 'Album of cartes-de-visite’, La Trobe Collection, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, Vic.

  • (1989), 'James Edward Neild – Victorian Virtuoso’, Melbourne, Vic.

  • Neild, J.E. (1889), 'On Literature and the Fine Arts in Victoria’, Melbourne, Vic.

Initial data sources

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

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