Port Jackson from Dawes Point

Description

Oil on canvas by John Skinner Prout (1805-1876), depicting a scene at Port Jackson from Dawes Point. Prout was a British painter, writer and lithographer who worked in Australia. He undertook sketching tours around the districts of Sydney between 1840 and 1844 and held exhibitions on the technique of drawing and painting. His work Port Jackson from Dawes Point depicts British soldiers at the Dawes Point Battery in Sydney overlooking the harbour and a group of nearby Indigenous Australians.

Identification

Artist

John Skinner Prout

Medium

Oil on canvas (reprint)

Date

1842

Collection

Colonial Art