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)
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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.
