Joseph Lycett

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Joseph Lycett, The residence of Edward Riley Esquire, Wooloomooloo, Near Sydney N. S. W., 1825, hand-coloured aquatint and etching printed in dark blue ink.
Australian print in the tradition of British decorative production.
Joseph Lycett （c.1774 – 1828） was a portrait and miniature painter, active in Australia.
Lycett specialised in topographical views of the major towns of Australia, and some of its more dramatic landscapes.
Lycett was born in Staffordshire, England, where he became a botanical artist.
By 1810, Lycett was described by others as an engraver and as a drawer; he was also noted as being a painter of portraits and miniatures.
Lycett had a de facto wife, Mary Stokes, known as Mary Lycett.
Lycett was convicted of forgery on 10 August 1811, having been prosecuted by the injured party: the Bank of England.
He was transported to Australia, sailing aboard the General Hewitt and arriving in Sydney on 7 February 1814.
Lycett's first employment in Australia was as an artist for Absalom West and he reported in the October 1814 muster as a limner （painter）.
West left the colony in December 1814 and Lycett had to find a new position; by May 1815 Lycett was employed in the police office.
At this time Sydney was flooded by hundreds of skilfully forged 5 shilling bills drawn on the postmaster.
They were traced to Lycett, who was found in possession of a small copper-plate press.
Lycett was sent to Newcastle on the Lady Nelson, where he came to the attention of the commandant of the settlement, Captain James Wallis.
Lycett drew up the plans for a church which Wallis projected and, when it was built in 1818, he painted the altar piece; he is said to have also produced the three-light window which still survives in the bishop's vest...