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Issue Details: First known date: 2016... 2016 Academic Digs into Colonial Artist's 'dark Secret'
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'An academic expects to set the cat among the pigeons by alleging that one of our most celebrated colonial artists, S.T. Gill, was a convict.

Babette Smith says art historians have been openly hostile to her theory that Gill was a 13-year-old forger transported to Sydney in 1833, rather than a free settler to Adelaide.'

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    y separately published work icon The Age 5 July 2016 9690882 2016 newspaper issue 2016 pg. 11
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