Thomas Watling - the artist forged in Australia
He was Australia's first professional artist - the Scot whose paintings gave people here their first glimpse of life in the new British colony in the early 1790s.
But Thomas Watling - who was born 250 years ago today in Dumfries - was no explorer or pioneer.
He was a convicted forger sent to Australia as punishment.
Willie Johnston reports.
19 Sep 2012
- From the section Scotland