There is no evidence that he painted at this time and three months after his arrival, Peacock’s wife and son joined him at Port Macquarie.

[2] By 1840 he was back in Sydney training at Paramatta Observatory with the government astronomer, James Dunlop[3] and he was afterwards employed as a meteorologist at the South Head Weather Station.

[2] On 27 November 1847, it was announced in the Sydney Chronicle that the governor had granted a conditional pardon to George Peacock which enabled him to proceed to all parts of the world except England.

[4] Peacock appears to have been most active as a painter between 1845 and 1852 and in 1847 he exhibited with the Society for the Promotion of the Fine Arts in Australia.

[2] On 22 June 1850 Bell's Life reported on an exhibition of local works at Kern and Mader's of George Street where they were highly complimentary of a copy of an oil picture by Mr. Peacock of South Head.