HMAS Australia (l) in Farm Cove
- About Frederick Elliott
Fred Elliot was born in England in 1865 and came to Queensland with his family in 1876. He started work as a lithographic artist at the Queensland Government Printing Office in 1896 and worked there until 1903. He then moved to Sydney.
He specialised in marine watercolour studies, travelling up and down the coast by ship and sketching scenes that he later turned into paintings. Elliott was active in Sydney from the 1890s to the 1920s, mainly painting Sydney Harbour including views and individual ships.
His watercolours are characterised by a high key and strong atmospheric effects. He showed his paintings in the Queensland National Association’s exhibitions and with the Queensland Art Society and the NSW Society of Artists.
- About HMAS Australia (I)
The Australian Navy’s first flagship, the battle cruiser HMAS Australia was the centrepiece of the ‘Fleet Unit’, whose acquisition signalled the RAN’s arrival as a credible ocean-going force.
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