John Stamper

  • Artist (Draughtsman)
During the 1850s Stamper left his Paddington residence to go on sketching trips with the colonial watercolourist John Hardwick. In a wash drawing worked on by the two, Stamper shows his playfulness by signing it 'John Stamper R.A.', though he was no Royal Academician.
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sketcher, was a friend and sketching companion of John Hardwick . When Hardwick visited Sydney in 1853 he stayed at Stamper’s house in Paddington and the two went on sketching trips together. A wash drawing, Sydney, from Vacluse (sic), in Hardwick’s album (ML) is annotated both 'Drawn by J.W. Hardwick’ and 'sketched by John Stamper R.A.’, the initials obviously being intended as a joke. (Stamper was no Royal Academician.)

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1992
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2011

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  • Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (collected in)