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 * **__Early artists__**
 * S. T. Gill was an English artist who came to South Asutralia in 1839. His paintings of early settlers arriving in Adelaide, setting up camp, and going off to the mines and gold diggings tell much about life of the early settlers. His South Australian drawings of the virgin landscape show an appreciation of the rounded hills of the Mount Lofty and Flinders Ranges.
 * George French painted scenes in Mount Gambier, the gold diggings and the Barossa district. His portraits of Aboriginal identities teach us a great deal about their ceremonies and the effect of white settlement. Angas's lithographs were published in a book entitled //South Australia// //Illustrated.//
 * Colonel William Light also sketched places that he visited, including Gawler and the Barossa. Although many of his works were lost when his house on North Terrace burned down, some have survived.
 * Eugene von Guerard travelled through South Australia making sketches, some of which he later turned into large painted landscapes. Some of his important works are hanging in the National Gallery in Canberra.
 * Sir Hans Heysen, a prize-winningSouth Australian artist of German descent, was becoming recognised by the end of the nineteenth century for his paintings of the Australian bush. He won his first prize, for "Mystic Morn" in 1904.
 * Adam Lindsay Gordon was a poet who lived near Mount Gambier. He wrote a famous poem entitled "The Sick Stockrider." He was a Member of Parliament and a champion horseman who won the Grand National and three steeplechases.
 * George Coppin opened the New Queen’s Theatre in 1846. The Theatre Royal in Hindley Street opened in 1868.

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