Joseph Backler b. 1813

  • Artist (Painter)
Joseph Backler made the best of his transportation to Australia by becoming a prolific and highly regarded portrait painter. He travelled the east coast taking commissions and leaving a rich legacy of 19th century Australian portraiture.
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Citations

  • Buscombe, E. (1978), 'Artists in Early Australia and their Portraits’, Sydney, NSW.

  • Hackforth-Jones, J. (1977), 'The Convict Artists’, Melbourne, Vic.

  • McCulloch, Alan (1984), 'Encyclopedia of Australian Art’, 2nd edition, Melbourne, Vic.

  • McDonald, P. R. & Pearce, B. (1988), 'The Artist and the Patron’, Art Gallery of New South Wales catalogue, Sydney, NSW.

  • Moore, William (1934), 'The Story of Australian Art’, 2 vols. (facsimile reprint 1980).

  • Neville, Richard (1993), 'Joseph Backler’, Australian Antique Collector, 46th edition.

  • (1982), 'Australian and European Paintings’, Spinks auction catalogue, 03-23.

  • (1985), Sotheby’s catalogue, no. 15, 25, 10.

  • (1845), The Australian, 01-29.

  • (1850), Bell’s Life in Sydney, 06-29.

  • Dixson, W., 'Notes on Australian artists’, Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney NSW, manuscript WD53.

  • 'Indents for the ship Portland’, Archives Office of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, 4/4017.

  • Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Sydney, NSW.

  • Victoria & Albert Library, London, England, UK.

  • (1999), 'Backler and Friends (1st Retrospective Exhibition)’, State Library of New South Wales, Picture Gallery, Sydney, NSW.

  • 'Artists’ Files’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW.

  • 'Artists’ Files’, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW.

Initial data sources

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

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