biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1801–78)
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| biography:
| Landscape painter, born in London, UK. He studied in London, and in 1833 was appointed by the commander of HMS Beagle, Robert Fitzroy, as a topographer for the voyage with Charles Darwin from Rio de Janeiro to Valparaiso. In 1835 he arrived in Sydney, where he set up a studio and began teaching. His favourite subject was Sydney harbour, and a set of lithographs, ‘Sketches of Sydney’, was published in 1850–1. In 1863 he obtained a post in the parliamentary library, which he held for the rest of his life. |
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