in four days during the last week of October 1904. In the chapter about the contribution of the Dutch to pre-war Australia in the 1927 book "Non-Britishers in Australia" by J. Ling, just two names of Dutch immigrants are mentioned: Guillaume Delprat, the general manager of BHP, and Jan Hendrik Scheltema. His became a familiar name around Melbourne and in the Australian art world. He has been compared favorably with Louis Buvelot. another migrant painter of the generation before him. His reputation as a teacher was such that some of his former students would advertise their work or their own classes with the message that they had been taught by him. Family J. H. Scheltema was the youngest child of Lieutenant-Colonel Nicolaas Scheltema (1810–1901) and his second wife Anna Maria Scharp (1819–1887) of The Hague, Netherlands, who had six children together, four surviving to adulthood, two girls and two boys. The family also lived in Haarlem and Rotterdam and moved to Gouda when Jan Hendrik was fifteen years old. His elder brother Petrus Herman first became an Architect, then Editor and Director of an architectural magazine and then Chief-overseer of palaces in the Hague. He was married to Casimira Arendsen Hein. The family names Scheltema, Scharp and Arendsen Hein are listed on the List of Dutch patrician families. Only on 16 February 1917 Scheltema married a long-term friend, Edith Bailey Smith (1876–1947) of Melbourne, after which they lived in Brisbane for almost one year before returning to Melbourne. The full length portrait of Edith (as an Italian fruit vendor), painted about two decades before they married, is now in the Art Gallery of Western Australia. Their son, Nicholas Herbert was born on 22 June 1918. Edith, who played the piano, composed and published an Australian patriotic song, Loyalty, in 1939. Scheltema and his wife retired to Queensland in the late 1930s to support their son in purchasing and operating a sawmill at Palmwoods, Queensland in 1938, for which Edith kept the books. It was paid off before Scheltema died. J. H. Scheltema died at Brisbane General Hospital late in 1941 and his remains were buried at the Toowong Cemetery. Edith died in March 1947 and was also buried there. Nicholas lived for some time in Rabaul, New Guinea; he died in May 1952 and was buried in the Brisbane Lutwyche Cemetery. Confusion Although there are many contemporary indicators that art