Thomas Watling
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Thomas Watling, was an early Australian painter and illustrator, notable for his natural history drawings and landscapes.
A Direct North View of Sydney Cove, 1794 by Thomas Watling
Vice-Admiral John Hunter was an officer of the Royal Navy, who succeeded Arthur Phillip as the second Governor of New South Wales, serving from 1795 to 1800.
Thomas Watling
…White, the colony's Surgeon General, copying natural history illustrations. In 1796 he was given a conditional pardon by the colony's second governor, John Hunter, made absolute on 5 April 1797. Thomas Watling painted many of the early colonial pictures of Australia and made a prolific number of sketches of birds…
Portrait, c. 1812
Captain John Hunter, Governor of New South Wales, 1801
Hunter's tomb in the graveyard of the Church of St John-at-Hackney in London
Bust of Admiral John Hunter in Leith