Frederick Garling Jr. (23 February 1806 – 16 November 1873) was a British-born Australian

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official and artist.

Life

Garling was born in London on 23 February 1806, one of five children of solicitor

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senior (1775-1848) and his wife Elizabeth. The family departed London for

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, New South Wales, as free passengers aboard the convict transport ship ''Francis and Eliza'' on 20 October 1814. Off the island of

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the vessel was captured and plundered by the American privateer ''Warrior'' and this delayed the arrival of the ''Francis and Eliza'' at Port Jackson till 8 August 1815. Garling senior was one of the first solicitors to come to Australia. In 1827 Garling took part in James Stirling's exploration of the Swan River, as the expeditions official artist. Among other things he painted ''View from Mount Eliza''. Colonist watercolour

Garling Jnr was appointed

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, Searcher and Gauger in the Customs Department at Port Jackson in 1829. He was promoted to the position of acting Landing Surveyor in 1847. He was made permanent in the post the following year. He gave evidence on the operation of the Customs Department to government inquiries in 1856, 1857 and again in 1859. He was an accomplished self-taught amateur artist, specialising in maritime subjects. Some of his paintings are in the

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, the

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Galleries, Sydney. An exhibition of his paintings was held at the State Library of New South Wales in 2003. Garling married Elizabeth Ward in Sydney in 1829 and they had 11 children. His eldest son, Frederick Augustus Garling (1833-1910) was an explorer and settler in Queensland. Garling retired from the Customs Department in May 1859. He died at his home, at 199 Dowling St, in Sydney on 16 November 1873.''

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/ref> He was 68 years of age.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Garling, Frederick Jr. 1806 births 1873 deaths 19th-century Australian painters 19th-century Australian male artists 19th-century Australian public servants Customs officers Australian landscape painters Australian waterside workers Australian male painters