William Pitt Wilshire b. 1807

  • Artist (Draughtsman),
  • Artist (Photographer),
  • Artist (Painter)
Native colonial whose claim to fame as first-born Australian artist belied the fact he took up landscape only because of the threat of photography to portraiture and his earliest colour paintings were little more than retouched photographs.
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exhibited at
New South Wales Academy of Art exhibition
Date
1872
Place
Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
Fine Art Exhibition
Date
1857
Place
Sydney Mechanics School of Arts, New South Wales
Description
Type
Exhibition
Australian Museum exhibition
Date
1854
Place
Sydney, New South Wales
Description
Type
Exhibition

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