Samuel Walters b. 1811

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Painter, worked mainly in Liverpool, England, specialising in pictures of ships. The National Library holds his oil painting of S.S. Australian (1862). Walters never came to Australia.
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marine painter, worked mainly in Liverpool, England, specialising in pictures of ships. The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, owns two of his marine paintings, one depicting the port of Liverpool. He exhibited regularly in both Liverpool and London and was patronised by British, American and colonial shipowners. The National Library holds his oil painting of S.S. Australian (1862) and a Mr Selway lent his painting of the Cheshire to the third annual exhibition of the South Australian Society of Arts in 1859, but Walters never came to Australia. Although he painted the screw steamship Antelope off the Cape of Good Hope in about 1853, he is unlikely to have visited South Africa either. His painting of Livingstone’s launch, Ma Robert (lithographed 1916), was after Thomas Baines .

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1992
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