Alfred Clint (Australian painter)

Alfred Clint (c. 1843 – 21 November 1923) was an Australian cartoonist and theatrical scene painter and member of a family of artists.

He left for Australia, where he joined with John Hennings in 1867, painting the scenery for a production of Antony and Cleopatra at the Theatre Royal, Melbourne, starring Walter Montgomery, followed by a Christmas pantomime written by W. M.

[1] Other burlesques and plays followed, culminating in After Dark, "a tale of London life", at the Prince of Wales Opera House in July 1869.

[2] In 1870 Clint and W. J. Wilson constructed a great diorama for the Theatre Royal, Melbourne, chronicling the "foundation an progress of Australia", and set up again in Sydney the following year.

[3] In 1873 he arrived in Adelaide under contract to Samuel Lazar at the Theatre Royal, meanwhile drawing cartoons for the short-lived (1873–1874) Mirror, The Portonian, and The Lantern, making a speciality of assemblages of rapid and accurate caricatures of well-known citizens,[4] then moved to Sydney to work for Sydney Punch, which in 1879 published a large print containing caricatures of 100 famous Sydneysiders.