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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creator of
Camp of 'Blanket', Aboriginal Visitor
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creator of
Aborigines of Queensland
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creator of
(Portrait of Robert Pitt)
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creator of
Cottage Girl
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creator of
Laughing Boy
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creator of
Sir Joshua Reynolds
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creator of
Beatrice Cenci
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creator of
(Portrait of an Australian Aboriginal woman)
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creator of
(Portrait of Sir Daniel Cooper)
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creator of
The Coming Simoon
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References [<ExternalResource: Walsh, G. P. (1967), 'James Wilshire', Melbourne, Vic : Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 2, [Pike, D. (ed.)], Melbourne University Press.>, <ExternalResource: Dixson, W. (1923), 'Notes on Australian artists', Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, vol. 9, no. 3.>, <ExternalResource: Moore, W. (1934), 'The Story of Australian Art', Sydney, NSW : Angus and Robertson (facsimile reprint, 1980) 2 volumes.>, <ExternalResource: (1853), Sydney Morning Herald, 10-19.>, <ExternalResource: Merrillees, R., 'Rosie Wilshire', Manuscript.>, <ExternalResource: Wilshire, W. P. (1874), 'Letters to Henry Parkes, 17 June, 12 October 1874', Sydney, NSW : Parkes Correspondence, State Library of New South Wales, Mitchell Library (A913), vol. 43.>, <ExternalResource: (family historian) Information sourced from, Baker, Edmund Rees (Ted).>, <ExternalResource: Information sourced from Lennon, Jane.>, <ExternalResource: (1850), Sydney Morning Herald, 05-03.>, <ExternalResource: (1850), Sydney Morning Herald, 07-13.>]