An undollared scholar in aspects of Australian history. Since 2016 I've been researching the early career of arguably Australia's most recognisable colonial artist – Samuel Thomas Gill.
David Coombe
Canberra, Australia
Photo credit: My portrait by Phillip England, tasmaniantintype.com, 2017.
Mastodon – @david_coombe_cbr@aus.social
Twitter (archive / inactive) – @coombeidau
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 research since 2016.
Components of a place and time machine taking us to 1840s colonial South Australia and the world of artist S.T. Gill.
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.
I take occasional sidetracks from my main project and you can read them here.
Mostly Coombe ~ Genealogy & Family History. Family history and genealogy. (Old material and I'm not actively maintaining it but it may still be of use.)
David Coombe, c.2014-26. Updated 28 July 2026. | text copyright (except where indicated).
CITE THIS: David Coombe, c.2014-26, david coombe | history, accessed dd mmm yyyy, <https://coombe.id.au/index.htm>