James Gay Sawkins
1806–78
Artist and geologist. Emigrated to the US in 1819. Worked as a portrait and landscape painter and as a mineral prospector, travelling in the US, Mexico, Cuba, Hawaii, and Australia. Returned to England in 1855. Assistant and artist on the British geological surveys of Trinidad, British Guiana, and Jamaica.
Source
D. W. Forbes 1991.
Bibliography
Forbes, David W. 1991. A pictorial tour of Hawaii, 1850–1852: watercolours, paintings, & drawings by James Gay Sawkins: with an account of his life & travels. San Francisco: Book Club of California.
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