Essay On Costantini

In the short time of 8 months after he arrived in Hobart and later on another offense this time of drunkenness, he was removed in December 1827 aboard the Prince Leopold to the secondary penal settlement at Macquarie Harbour. Details of Costantini’s life of this settlement are unclear. Stilwell supports that he was employed as a dispenser of medicines, and general assistant to the surgeon. Pearn notes that six surgeons served at Macquarie Harbour, a place where the extremely hard condition of living made valuable the special skills that medical people had: ‘confident personality, diagnostic ability, experience in treatment and preventive care. Only one of them was university qualified: Dr William Dermer, when Dr Charles Constantini was there as a recidivist convict and not as a doctor. However, Pearn later records that Costantini, after his graduation as a doctor in Paris, was convicted at the Old Bailey of burglary. This note might explain Costantini’s intention of going to London initially to have been related to his medical skills; his mannerisms and his lack of proper English could have directed him to his destiny in Van Diemen’s Land.
A shipping clerk, reordered as G.K, acknowledged two things in his memoir. First, Costantini’s real passion for art, as into his best associate, a notebook that always had with him, he sketched of every building on Sarah Island. G.K described Costantini as ‘a most extraordinary fellow here… an artist and draughtsman of great ability’; G.K by …show more content…
G.K’s sentence unintentionally highlights Costantini’s interaction with primitive art. Using watercolours Costantini painted mostly small-scale landscapes, gardens, miniature figures and portraits. Watercolour, except for low cost material, is a challenging technique since an assured competency is required, as it is extremely challenging to correct any possible