Campbell, John

JOHN CAMPBELL A scenic artist, migrated to Australia from Scotland in the early 1880s, working in NSW and Queensland, moving to WA around the turn of the 20th century. His detailed house portraits and landscapes in oil and watercolour form a valuable record of late colonial buildings and cities, particularly Perth, and is represented in the Art Gallery of WA, the Mitchell Library and the Caroline Simpson Library of the Historic Houses Trust of NSW He is included in two broad historical surveys of colonial WA art and was the subject of a monographic exhibition at the Art Gallery of Western Australia in 2003. Represented: State Library of NSW, Royal WA Historical Society, NGA, University of WA Homes A Court Collection Historic Houses Trust Conservation Resource Centre- NSW, Art Gallery of WA