Watercolours

Lacey, George

George Lacy (c1827 – 1878) Arrived Sydney, July 1842 and travelled extensively throughout the colony at the newly discovered goldfields of Ophir, Tambaroora and Sofala. About 1855 to the Victorian goldfields probably supporting himself through painting excuting animal and sporting scenes.

“A highly stylised drawing of an Aboriginal woman and its pair Coo-ee (an Aboriginal man on a peak), from the same family collection, are said to be the first paintings sent back to Lacy’s family in London. (A variant on the latter appeared in the Illustrated Sydney News on 15 September 1866”

These drawings are likely to be the works that are described in Joan Kerr’s Dictionary of Australian Artists up to 1875.
An engraving was published in the Illustrated Sydney News in 1866.