Colonial artist John Campbell in Brisbane, Dianne Byrne
Abstract:
For someone who worked in Tasmania, Victoria, Queensland, NSW and Western Australia between the late 1870s and his death, the prolific scene painter and artist John Campbell (1855–1924) deserves to be better known. Dianne Byrne reveals a number of impressive watercolours which are mostly portraits of the houses of prominent Queenslanders, painted during his brief residence in Brisbane c 1887–1890.
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