John Shearer Bowman b. 1819

Also known as J. S. Bowman
  • Artist (Painter)
John Shearer Bowman was a Scottish immigrant to Australia. Being both a painter and an art teacher and a regular exhibitor to exhibitions in Sydney and Melbourne, there is some confusion over which paintings were Bowman's and which of them were by his students.
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  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870

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  • Straw, Frederick (associate of)
Related stub person groups
  • NSW Academy of Art (associate of)
Related people
  • Bowman, Zenobia J. (associate of)
  • Bowman, Zenobia J. (parent of)
  • Baillie, (associate of)
  • Baillie, W. (associate of)
Related works
  • Portrait of Charles Dickens (creator of)
  • Sketch in Australian Alps (creator of)
  • Sketch in Gippsland (creator of)
  • Valley in Australian Alps, near Manaro Plains (creator of)
  • Coast of Tasmania, Bass's Straits (creator of)
  • Pool near Source of Snowy River, NSW (creator of)
  • On Blackall Creek, Gippsland (creator of)
  • Portrait of Chas Dickens (creator of)
  • Portrait Study (creator of)
  • Mouth of Gardiner's Creek (creator of)
  • View near Elephant Bridge (creator of)
  • Portrait of Mr J.S. Bowman (creator of)
  • Falls on the Crackenback River (creator of)
  • Mount Kosciusko, in the Alps (creator of)
  • A Quiet Pool on the Upper Yarra (creator of)
  • Ford on the Upper Yarra (creator of)
  • The Discovery of Gipps Land (creator of)
Related collections
  • Private collection (collected in)
Related recognitions
  • 5th annual exhibition of the NSW Academy of Art (received)
Related events
  • New South Wales Academy of Art (exhibited at)
  • New South Wales Academy of Art (exhibited at)
  • Melbourne Intercolonial Exhibition (exhibited at)
  • Victorian Exhibition preparatory to the 1873 London Exhibition (exhibited at)
  • Emerald Hill Mechanics' Institute Industrial and Fine Art Exhibition (exhibited at)