William Leigh b. 1829

Also known as Willy
  • Artist (Painter)
Sketcher and watercolourist who spent about eighteen months in Australasia from 1852. Three of his sketchbooks are in the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney.
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Citations

  • Andrews, B. (1984), 'Gothic in South Australian Churches’, Adelaide, SA : Flinders University catalogue.

  • Downer, C. & Phipps, J. (1985), 'Victorian Vision: 1834 Onwards’, Melbourne, Vic : National Gallery of Victoria catalogue.

  • Gordon-Brown, A. (1975), 'Pictorial Africana’, Cape Town, South Africa.

  • Kerr, J. & Broadbent, J. (1980), 'Gothick Taste in the Colony of New South Wales’, Sydney, NSW.

  • Press, M.M. (1986), 'From Our Broken Toil: South Australian Catholics 1836-1905’, Adelaide, SA.

  • Wilson, S.C. & Borrow, K.T. (1973), 'The Bridge over the Ocean’, Adelaide, SA.

  • 'William Leigh’, Sydney, NSW : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales (PXn 356).

  • Information sourced from Andrews, Brian.

Initial data sources

  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870

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