William Boissevain, painter, was born in New York and is the son of diplomat parents. He studied at the Acad_mie des Beaux Arts in Paris in 1947 and at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London in 1948. He came to Perth in 1949 with his first wife Rhoda. He taught art at Wesley College in the 1950s. He won the Claude Hotchin Art Prize in 1959, the Helena Rubinstein Prize for portraiture in 1961 and the Perth Prize for Drawing International in 1971. He has exhibited regularly and was awarded an Order of the British Empire in 1978.
- Writers:
- Dr Dorothy Erickson
- Date written:
- 2010
- Last updated:
- 2011
