PROUT

JOHN SKINNER

“A very fine piece of highland scenery”

“We like [this] better perhaps than any of its companions because it gives us a very fine piece of highland scenery’. In a diorama of Australian views exhibited extensively in England from 1850 to 1855 Prout included a painting of the same subject, commenting that the bold and rugged sides [of Mount Wellington] present a magnificent appearance’. ”
— Julia Horne, The Pursuit of Wonder. How Australia's landscape was explored, nature discovered, and tourism unleashed

J. S. Prout was prolific in Tasmania in the mid 1840s. His influence on Tasmanian painting during this time was striking. His portrayal of the mountain varies from a wildly romantic, picturesque aspect, through to simple backdrop to the city.

In 1846 a Sydney Morning Herald review of John Skinner Prout's Tasmania Illustrated praised his painting of Mount Wellington (entitled The Female Factory, from Proctor's Quarry)

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