John Thomas Baines

(John) Thomas Baines (27 November 1820 - 8 May 1875) was an English artist and explorer of British colonial southern Africa and Australia. Born in King's Lynn, Norfolk, Baines was apprenticed to a coach painter at an early age. When he was 22 he left England for South Africa aboard the "Olivia" (captained by a family friend William Roome) and worked for a while in Cape Town as a scenic and portrait artist, and as official war artist during the so-called Eighth Frontier War for the British Army.
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John Thomas Baines Aboriginal Canoes Communicating with the 'Monarch' and the 'Tom Tough', 28 August 1855 oil


Aboriginal Canoes Communicating with the 'Monarch' and the 'Tom Tough', 28 August 1855
Painting ID::  93150 		Aboriginal Canoes Communicating with the 'Monarch' and the 'Tom Tough', 28 August 1855
Date 1868(1868) Medium oil on canvas Dimensions 45.8 X 66 cm (18 X 26 in) TTD
   
   
     
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     (John) Thomas Baines (27 November 1820 - 8 May 1875) was an English artist and explorer of British colonial southern Africa and Australia. Born in King's Lynn, Norfolk, Baines was apprenticed to a coach painter at an early age. When he was 22 he left England for South Africa aboard the "Olivia" (captained by a family friend William Roome) and worked for a while in Cape Town as a scenic and portrait artist, and as official war artist during the so-called Eighth Frontier War for the British Army.

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