David Henry Souter

David Henry Souter was an Australian artist and journalist. A stocky and humorous man, Souter wrote short stories, verse, light articles and plays, with a capable and ready pen. He did a fair amount of painting in watercolor, but his reputation rests on his blackandwhite work, which, considering the mass of it, was very even in quality. He also illustrated volumes written by Ethel Turner and other Australian authors.

Souter was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, the son of David Henry Souter, an engineer, and his wife Ann Smith, ne Grant. He did an apprenticeship under a house painter and sign maker when he was 12. Souter studied art at the local branch of the South Kensington school, studying drawing, contributed to a local journal from 1880, Bon Accord, and went to Natal in 1881, where he engaged in journalism.

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