2. Joseph Lycett
Joseph Lycett was born in Staffordshire in around 1774 and worked as a
professional portrait and miniature painter.
He was convicted of forgery and transported to Australia for 14 years.
When he was in prison, he began to work as a designer and artist, and helped to
design buildings like Christchurch in New Castle.
3. Joseph Lycett
Because of his work, Lycett
received a conditional pardon
from his prison sentence.
He worked as a landscape
artist, and some of his works
were included in the book
called “Views in Australia”
which was sent to London to
be published.
5. John Eyre
John Eyre was born in 1771 in Coventry, England. In 1799 he was sentenced to
seven years’ transportation for housebreaking and arrived in Sydney in 1801.
After three years in the colony, he received a conditional pardon and began work
as an artist soon afterwards. He created naval charts for Governor Bligh and was
also employed in more mundane artistic tasks, including painting numbers on the
sides of buildings and painting offices.He was well known for his water colour
paintings and views of Sydney.
