Joshua Higgs

Also known as Jnr Joshua Higgs
  • Artist (Painter)
A painter who was included as a professional artist in an art exhibition in Launceston in 1885. His Tasmanian watercolours include Low Head, Tasmania, 1891, showing the construction of the 'new' lighthouse at Low Head.
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painter, was included as a professional artist in the art exhibition organised by M. Maurice in Launceston in 1885. Joshua Higgs’ watercolour Low Head, Tasmania, 1891 , showing the construction of the 'new’ lighthouse at Low Head was included in Sotheby’s The Colonial Sale , Hobart, on 7 September 1997, lot 35. J. Kerr and G.T. Stilwell noted paintings by Higgs in a private collection, Mt Ireh, Tasmania, in 1991-2. Other Tasmanian watercolours are known, including a view of the Old Toll Gate at the mouth of Cataract Gorge, Launceston (cited McCulloch).

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Date written:
1999
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2011

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Related people
  • Maurice, (associate of)
Related works
  • Low Head, Tasmania, 1891 (creator of)
Related collections
  • untitled (collected in)
Related events
  • Untitled Event (exhibited at)