John Hicks Hutchinson | Georgian House with Windmill c1830
Framed
John Hicks Hutchinson (1792 - 1866)
(Georgian Homestead with Windmill)
Oil on board
14.3 x 23 cm (sight)
Signed with initials lower right: 'J.H.H.'
$4400
This painting could be a scene in Tasmania or NSW.
BIO
John Hicks Hutchinson
(1792 - 1866)
Arrived in Hobart as a free settler in 1823. A conversion to Methodism saw him then move to Sydney, where he trained as a Methodist minister. Upon his ordination, he spent two years as a missionary in Tonga, before returning to Australia, where he worked at Windsor, New South Wales. In 1830 he took up a position as minister to the Van Diemen's Land Company. During this time, he produced a series of pencil sketches of V.D.L. Co. owned properties, which are now housed in the State Library of Tasmania. Despite receiving a land grant at Morven, current day Evandale, in 1831, he took up the position of superintendent of the Hobart Town Female House of Corrections a ear later. He died in Hobart in 1866. It is not known whether this painting, depicting a Georgian homestead with an enormous windmill, relates to Tasmania, New South Wales, or perhaps even Hutchinson's time spent in Tonga
1. Kerr. J (1992). Dictionarv of Australian Artists: Painters, Sketchers, Photographers and Engravers to 1870, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, p. 383
