Richard Laishley b. 1816

  • Artist (Printmaker),
  • Artist (Painter)
Laishley was a natural history painter, lithographer and Congregational clergyman; a pupil of the painter and engraver Le Cocq. He was sent to New Zealand and Australia by the Congregational Missionary Society, staying on and entering many colonial exhibitions.
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Citations

  • Laishley, Richard, 'Sketch notes of family history’, Unfinished manuscript.

  • Laishley, Richard, 'Gleanings of natural history in New Zealand’, Uncompleted manuscript.

  • Laishley, Richard (1870), 'Parrots of Australia’, Projected book of lithographic illustrations and accompanying descriptions.

  • Laishley, Richard, 'British Birds Eggs’.

Initial data sources

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

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