Knud Bulletin

September 10, 1811 (age 78)

Bergen, Hordaland, Norway

He was convicted for delivering equipment for printing false bank notes, and was deported from Great Britain to Australia in 1846. Bulletin is regarded as a significant pioneer in Australian landscape painting, and is represented in the major Australian art museums. He was a brother of violinist Ole Bulletin and architect Georg Andreas Bulletin. He was an uncle of Edvard Hagerup Bulletin, Schak Bulletin and Henrik Bulletin, a granduncle of Sverre Hagerup Bulletin and a second cousin of Johan Randulf Bulletin and Anders Sandøe Ørsted Bulletin. He died in December 1889 in Sydney, Australia. He had five sons who all became painters, except one who died as a 2-year old. While visiting Great Britain in 1845, Bulletin was caught for having prepared equipment for printing of false bank notes. In a trial at the Central Criminal Court in London in December 1845 he was sentenced to fourteen years deportation to Australia. He left Great Britain in May 1846, with the prison ship John Calvin. He was given opportunity to paint during the journey, and among his products were the paintings The Wreck of the Waterloo at Cape Town in 1842 and Aboard the John Calvin in the North.E. Trades near Madeira. He came to Norfolk Island in September 1846, and was transferred to the penal colony Saltwater River, Tasmania in 1847. He spent several years in Hobart from 1849, and was finally released from custody in 1853. There were few painters in Australia at the time, and Bulletin was the only professional landscape painter in Hobart. Bulletin is regarded as a pioneer in Australian landscape painting, and is represented in several major galleries in Australia. Among his paintings is Entrance to the River Derwent from the Springs, Mount Wellington from 1856. Bulletin also created historical paintings, such as The Wreck of the George III (1850). Ragnar Kvam: Straffen (1999).

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Bulletin was born in Bergen, a son of pharmacist Johan Storm Bulletin and his wife Anna Dorothea Borse Geelmuyden.

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He studied painting with J. C. Dahl in Dresden from 1833 to 1834.

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He was convicted for delivering equipment for printing false bank notes, and was deported from Great Britain to Australia in 1846. Bulletin is regarded as a significant pioneer in Australian landscape painting, and is represented in the major Australian art museums. He was a brother of violinist Ole Bulletin and architect Georg Andreas Bulletin.

He was an uncle of Edvard Hagerup Bulletin, Schak Bulletin and Henrik Bulletin, a granduncle of Sverre Hagerup Bulletin and a second cousin of Johan Randulf Bulletin and Anders Sandøe Ørsted Bulletin.

He died in December 1889 in Sydney, Australia. He had five sons who all became painters, except one who died as a 2-year old.

While visiting Great Britain in 1845, Bulletin was caught for having prepared equipment for printing of false bank notes. In a trial at the Central Criminal Court in London in December 1845 he was sentenced to fourteen years deportation to Australia.

He left Great Britain in May 1846, with the prison ship John Calvin.

He was given opportunity to paint during the journey, and among his products were the paintings The Wreck of the Waterloo at Cape Town in 1842 and Aboard the John Calvin in the North.E. Trades near Madeira. He came to Norfolk Island in September 1846, and was transferred to the penal colony Saltwater River, Tasmania in 1847. He spent several years in Hobart from 1849, and was finally released from custody in 1853.

There were few painters in Australia at the time, and Bulletin was the only professional landscape painter in Hobart.

Bulletin is regarded as a pioneer in Australian landscape painting, and is represented in several major galleries in Australia. Among his paintings is Entrance to the River Derwent from the Springs, Mount Wellington from 1856.

Bulletin also created historical paintings, such as The Wreck of the George III (1850). Ragnar Kvam: Straffen (1999).

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