Samuel Gill b. 21 May 1818

Also known as S. T. Gill, T. G. S., Samuel Thomas Gill
  • Artist (Photographer),
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator),
  • Artist (Printmaker),
  • Artist (Painter)
Colonial era watercolourist, lithographer and presumably photographer who documented exploration and the Gold Rush in Australia.
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Name
Samuel Gill
Also known as:
  • S. T. Gill
  • T. G. S.
  • Samuel Thomas Gill
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Artist (Photographer)
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
  • Artist (Printmaker)
  • Artist (Painter)
Other Occupation
  • draughtsman (ANZSIC code: 692)
Birth date
21 May 1818
Birth place
Perriton, Devon, England, UK
Birth note
1819 according to DAA
Death date
27 October 1880
Death place
Melbourne, VIC
Active Period
  • 1840 - 1872
Arrival
  • 1839 (Adelaide, SA, vessel; Caroline)
Residence
  • 1862 - 1880 Melbourne, VIC
  • 1856 - 1862 Sydney, NSW
  • 1852 - 1856 Collins Street, Melbourne, VIC
  • c.1852 - c.1856 Victorian goldfields, VIC
  • 1840 - 1852 Gawler Place, Adelaide, SA
  • 1839 - 1852 South Australia
Languages
  • English
Initial Record Data Source
  • DAA with additions

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References [<ExternalResource: (13 May 1865), 'Bell's Life in Sydney'.>, <ExternalResource: Gill, S. T. (1865), 'The Australian Sketchbook'.>, <ExternalResource: Sherer, John, 'The Gold-Finder of Australia: How He Went, How He Fared and How He Made His Fortune', England, contains forty-eight engravings attributed to W.A. Nicholls but obviously taken from Gill.>, <ExternalResource: (1840), 'South Australian Register', Adelaide, South Australia, 03-07, 1845-11-08; 1847-02-13.>, <ExternalResource: (1852), 'Argus', Melbourne, Victoira, 08-20, 1912-09-14; 1912-09-21.>, <ExternalResource: (1853), 'Armchair', 09-24, 1854-02-11.>, <ExternalResource: Moore, William (1934), 'The Story of Australian Art', 2 vols, (facsimile reprint, 1930).>, <ExternalResource: Thomas, D., North, I., & McCarthy F. (1972), 'The Australian Landscape'.>, <ExternalResource: Morgan, E.J.R. (1966), 'Samuel Thomas Gill', Australian Dictionary of Biography, ed. D. Pike, A. Shaw, M. Clark, B. Nairn, G. Serle and R. Ward, vol 1, Melbourne, Victoria.>, <ExternalResource: Appleyard, R.; et al. (1986), 'S.T. Gill: the South Australian Years 1839-1852', Adelaide: Art Gallery of South Australia.>, <ExternalResource: Bowden, K. (1971), 'Samuel Thomas Gill: Artist', Maryborough, Victoria.>, <ExternalResource: Carroll, Alison, 'lithograph, ill. Heads of the People No.2 1849', Art Gallery of South Australia, SA.>, <ExternalResource: Dutton, G. (1962), 'The Paintings of S.T. Gill', Adelaide, South Australia.>, <ExternalResource: Greig, A.W. (1913), 'Samuel Thomas Gill', Melbourne, Victoria: Victorian Historical Magazine 3 (p 14).>, <ExternalResource: Jones, S. (1983), 'Monsieur Noufflard's House', Sydney, New South Wales.>, <ExternalResource: McCulloch, Alan (1977), 'Artists of the Australian Goldrush', Melbourne, Victoria.>, <ExternalResource: Moore, William (1934), 'The Story of Australian Art', 2 vols, (facsimile reprint, 1930).>, <ExternalResource: Sayers, A. (1989), 'Drawing in Australia', Canberra, ACT.>, <ExternalResource: Smith, B. (1945), 'Place, Taste and Tradition', Sydney, New South Wales.>, <ExternalResource: Tregenza, J. (1977), ''S.T. Gill's "Heads of the People"', Adelaide: Art Gallery of South Australia Bull. 35, pp 26-35.>, <ExternalResource: (1848), 'Illustrated London News', London, England, UK, 12-02.>, <ExternalResource: (1855), 'advertisement for Campbells & Fergusson lithographers and engravers', Melbourne Directory, Victoria.>, <ExternalResource: (13 December 1869), 'South Australian Advertiser', Adelaide, South Australia.>, <ExternalResource: (1876), Sydney Mail, 05-06.>, <ExternalResource: Information sourced from Appleyard, Ron.>, <ExternalResource: Gill, S. T. (1846), 'South Australian Gazette', Adelaide, South Australia, 10-10.>, <ExternalResource: Gill, S. T. (1852), 'Victorian Gold Diggings and Diggers As They Are', Melbourne, Victoria, 08.>, <ExternalResource: Gill, S. T. (1855), 'The Diggers and Diggings of Victoria As They Are', Melbourne, Victoria.>, <ExternalResource: Gill, S. T., 'Sketches in Victoria', Melbourne, Victoria.>, <ExternalResource: Gill, S. T. (1857), 'Victoria Illustrated', Melbourne, Victoria (engraved in London after drawings by Gill).>, <ExternalResource: Gill, S. T. (1856), 'Scenery in and around Sydney', Sydney, New South Wales.>, <ExternalResource: Gill, S. T. (1869), 'The Victorian Goldfields', Melbourne, Victoria: Melbourne Public Library.>, <ExternalResource: Gill, S. T., 'The Gold-Fields of Victoria during 1852-3: Comprising Fifty Sketches of Life and Character Primative [sic] Operations &c. &c.', (posthumously).>, <ExternalResource: Dutton, G. (1978), 'S.T. Gill's Australia', Adelaide, South Australia.>, <ExternalResource: McCulloch, Alan (1984), 'Encycopedia of Australian Artists, 2nd edn', Melbourne, Victoria.>, <ExternalResource: Information sourced from Bruce, C.>, <ExternalResource: Information sourced from Callaway, A.>, <ExternalResource: Information sourced from Lennon, J.>, <ExternalResource: Information sourced from Chapman, W.>, <ExternalResource: Tregenza, J. (1981), 'The visual dimension of colonial history', Sydney, New South Wales: Art and Australia 19/1.>, <ExternalResource: Caban, 'A Fine Line', p.7.>] [<ExternalResource: (13 May 1865), 'Bell's Life in Sydney'.>, <ExternalResource: Gill, S. T. (1865), 'The Australian Sketchbook'.>, <ExternalResource: Sherer, John, 'The Gold-Finder of Australia: How He Went, How He Fared and How He Made His Fortune', England, contains forty-eight engravings attributed to W.A. Nicholls but obviously taken from Gill.>, <ExternalResource: (1840), 'South Australian Register', Adelaide, South Australia, 03-07, 1845-11-08; 1847-02-13.>, <ExternalResource: (1852), 'Argus', Melbourne, Victoira, 08-20, 1912-09-14; 1912-09-21.>, <ExternalResource: (1853), 'Armchair', 09-24, 1854-02-11.>, <ExternalResource: Moore, William (1934), 'The Story of Australian Art', 2 vols, (facsimile reprint, 1930).>, <ExternalResource: Thomas, D., North, I., & McCarthy F. (1972), 'The Australian Landscape'.>]