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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Name
William Pitt Wilshire
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
  • Artist (Photographer)
  • Artist (Painter)
Other Occupation
  • Merchant (ANZSIC code: G)
Birth date
1807
Birth place
Sydney, NSW
Death date
12 March 1889
Death place
Surry Hills, Sydney, NSW
Burial place
Rookwood Cemetery, Rookwood, Sydney, NSW
Active Period
  • c.1829 - c.1886
Residence
  • Kurrajong, Blue Mountains, NSW
  • 1807 - 1889 Sydney, NSW
Languages
  • English
Initial Record Data Source
  • DAA with additions

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Related collections
  • Archives Office of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • Archives Office of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (collected in)