James J. Martyn

Also known as James J. Martyr, J. J. Martyn
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Colonial male sketcher of horses and landscapes who may have been related to a horse and carriage salesman.
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sketcher, drew a detailed pencil sketch titled View of Pyrmont & Balmain from the Drawing Room Balcony of Jas. Martyn Esq. Sydney, N.S.W. (c.1844, ML). Jerrawang and Bosco, a pair of watercolour portraits (p.c.) of two stockhorses owned by David Strang, a Scottish-born grazier of Glencairn near Crookwell in southern NSW, were apparently done about 1850 (one is signed 'J.J. Martyn’). These primitive drawings have views of the Glencairn homestead in the background. The artist may have been a relative of Charles Martyn, a horse auctioneer who owned Martyn’s Horse & Carriage Bazaar at 240 Pitt Street, Sydney, in the 1850s and 1860s.

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Date written:
1992
Last updated:
2011

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