George French Angas
George French Angas (born April 25, 1822 in Newcastle upon Tyne , England , † October 4, 1886 in London ) was an English draftsman.
His father was George Fife Angas , one of the founders of the South Australian colony. George French Angas toured the Mediterranean countries in 1841 and published A Rambel in Malta and Sicily in 1842 , which he illustrated with his own sketches. In the same year he moved to London and continued his education in lithography based on his own sketches and in drawing. He used these skills to create his travel books in the future. In 1847 he published the folio volume South Australia Illustradet containing 60 colored plates and in 1849 The Kaffirs Illustradet with 30 colored plates. Several more of his works showed countries and inhabitants from then not yet cultivated and little known areas of the world. After the start of gold digging in Australia, he went there and published his impressions in 1861 in the folio volume Views of the Gold Regions of Australia . Angas settled in Sydney and became secretary or director of the Governorate Museum there. Before 1874 he returned to London, in that year he exhibited the picture of Constantinople with a view over the Marmara Sea in the Royal Academy . The British Museum has five watercolor drawings in its Print Room with depictions of the Zulu , these are signed GF Angas 1847.
Works (selection)
Zoeloe vrouens brou beer
Blue Lake, Mount Gambier
Port Adelaide
literature
- Angas, George French . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 1 : Aa – Antonio de Miraguel . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1907, p. 492 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Bernard Smith, Kristiane Frank: Angas, George French . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 3, Seemann, Leipzig 1990, ISBN 3-363-00116-9 , p. 727 f.
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Angas, George French |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English draftsman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 25, 1822 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Newcastle upon Tyne |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 4, 1886 |
| Place of death | London |