I'm an undollared scholar using my systems and humanities backgrounds in what for me is a fresh field. For the last five years I've been researching the early career of Australia's most recognisable colonial artist – Samuel Thomas Gill.
You can contact me at: david@coombe.id.au (if no reply please check your spam folder) or
@coombeidau.
David CoombeCanberra, Australia
Photo credit: My portrait by Phillip England, tasmaniantintype.com, 2017.
FEATURE: S.T. Gill's many paintings of the city of Adelaide are included in this online interactive map of 1840s Adelaide. Move around the map and see how Gill and contemporary artists pictured the city – largely before photography. This is the busiest of the Gill maps.
Samuel Thomas Gill - his life and work from his arrival in South Australia in 1839 up to his early time at the Victorian gold rush in 1852-53. Also his contemporaries. This is my main area of study since 2016.
Components of a time machine taking us to 1840s colonial South Australia and the world of artist S.T. Gill.
I take occasional sidetracks from my main project and you can read about these in my research journal.
Mostly Coombe ~ Genealogy & Family History. Family history and genealogy. (Old material but may still be of use.)
I feel awkward about my old e-books as they're from a less mature me. But here they are for the record.
Three Rabbits Alibi: A True Story of Murder, Madness & the News in Colonial Melbourne – my 2015 e-book.
Deaths at Josephine's Gasworks Hotel – my 2013 e-book plus background on Brompton's Gasworks Hotel and its early publicans.