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   Watling
   Thomas
   T. W. ; Thos. Watling / T. Watling ;
   
   son
   1762 in Dumfries, Scotland
   1814/ 1815 c.
   
   soldier Ham Watlin
   orphan, raised by aunt Marion Kirkpatrick ;
   art; formed his own 'academy'. In 1788 in Glasgow as a coach & chaise painter.
   Australia
   surgeon general naturalist John White (1750-1832): Journal Voyage New South Wales (1790) ; David Collins: Account English Colongy NSW (1798-1802) ; John Hunter ; Smith, James & James Sowerby: A Specimen of the Botany of New Holland (1793-1795) ;
   British Governor in Australia John Hunter ;
   naturalist surgeon-general John White ;
   anthropological, ethnographical, botanical, natural, and topographical sketching, drawing, watercolour, and oil painting ;
   www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/art-nature-imaging/gallery/image.do?imageid=22 ; nationaltreasures.nla.gov.au/%3E/Treasures/item/nla.int-ex6-s46 ;
   W.Dixson: Notes on Australian Artists, J. & Proc.of the Royal Australian Historical Society 5,5(1919):225-48; British Museum Natural History ;
   AKL ; Nissen: Botan. Buchillustr. 1966; Zoolog. Buchillustr. 1969/78 # 4390 ; Magee 2009: 74f., 96, 100-7 & 25 3; H. S. Gladstone: T. W. 1938 ; Sawyer 1971: 97, 164, 172 & 197 ; Pinault 1991: 86 ; Rice 1999: chapter 5: 144 ; Rice 2010: 144f. ; Rex Rienitz in: Australian Dictionary of Biography: http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/watling-thomas-2776 ;
   because of a charge of falsification sent as convict to Port Jackson in Australia 1788, Sydney. pardon 1796-7; Calcutta; in Scotland 1800; www.dumfriesmuseum.demon.co.uk/watling1.htm ;

Further archival source: https://www.anbg.gov.au/biography/watling-thomas.html .
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