Charles Powis b. c.1819

Also known as Junior C. Powis
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Painter, sculptor and plasterer, came to the Swan River Colony, Western Australia. He exhibited what was proclaimed to be the first statue ever made in Perth in January 1862. The following month exhibited seventy 'brilliantly coloured' drawings. He then established Perth Plastering Company.
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painter, sculptor and plasterer, eldest of the four sons of Robert (and Elizabeth?) Powis, came to the Swan River Colony (Western Australia) as a child with his parents and brother Henry, arriving at Fremantle in the Rockingham on 14 May 1830. Charles exhibited what was proclaimed to be the first statue ever made in Perth in January 1862. The following month C. Powis junior (undoubtedly the same person) held an exhibition of seventy 'brilliantly coloured’ drawings several of which were 4 to 6 feet (122 to 182 cm) long. These could be viewed from 10 a.m. to dusk: 'No one admitted in their deshabilee’. By 1868 he and Henry had established the Perth Plastering Company and no further drawings are known.

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1992
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References [<ExternalResource: 'WA Death Records : 5/1891'.>, <ExternalResource: Erickson, R. (1979), 'Dictionary of Western Australians 1829-1914', Nedlands, Western Australia, Volume 3.>, <ExternalResource: Kornweibel, A.H. (1973), 'Apollo and the Pioneers', Perth, Western Australia.>, <ExternalResource: Information sourced from Erickson, R.>] [<ExternalResource: 'WA Death Records : 5/1891'.>]