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Transportation
Knut Bull was transported on the John Calvin, departing 9th May 1846 and arriving 21st Sep 1846 with 201 passengers.
Built 1839 at Greenock, Scotland. Wood barque of 510 Tons. The 1848 voyage with Irish female convicts. The John Calvin, with 171 female convicts, arrived yesterday. She left London on the 26th December, and went to Kingston, when she took on board her prisoners, and left on the 24th January. There have been four deaths on board and three births, one infant still born. She did not touch any where and spoke no vessels for this place. Hobart Town Advertiser, 19 May 1848.
John Calvin (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 92, Class and Piece Number HO11/15, Page Number 72 |
| Source Description | This record is one of the entries in the British convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database compiled by State Library of Queensland from British Home Office (HO) records which are available on microfilm as part of the Australian Joint Copying Pro |
| Original Source | Great Britain. Home Office |
| Compiled By | State Library of Queensland |
| Database Source | British convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database |
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Born in Bergen, Norway, Knut Geelmuyden Bull studied painting with J. C. Dahl in Dresden from 1833 to 1834. Born into a Well connected Norwegian family, his two brothers were the famous architect George Andreas Bull & the virtuoso violinist Ole Bull (Who founded the ill fated Ole Bull colony In Pennsylvania USA). During a visit to Great Britain in 1845, Bull was caught for having prepared equipment for printing of false bank notes. He was tried in the Central Criminal Court, London December 1845 and sentenced to fourteen years transportation to Norfolk Island arriving in 1846 and later sent to Saltwater penal colony Van Diemen's Land 1847. He was freed in 1853, Bull married Mary Ann Bryen in Hobart, Tasmania, in 1852. Although he was regarded as a landscape artist he was also known for painting famous shipping disasters, The Wreck of the George III (painted in 1850)was one of them. The couple had five sons, four became painters (one dying as a 2-year old). Knut Bull died in December 1889 in Sydney.