age ~59
from Bluffton, SC
Described as a tour de force of precision joinery, wooden inlay and detailed, high-relief carving, McLean's pièce de résistance was a remarkable sideboard, or ' buffet', which has carved scenes depicting the early days of the then Colony of Victoria ( Australia ), including a native chief of the Yarra Yarra and a tableau of Melbourne's founder John Batman with John Buckley....
Scottish emigrant to Australia