painter, art teacher, decorator, plumber, house painter and glazier, arrived at Launceston, Van Diemen’s Land, in the Charles Kerr on 20 November 1835, with his wife Susannah, their two sons and six daughters. William Capon advertised as a 'plumber, painter and glazier’ in October 1836 but later that month William Capon was offering lessons in 'pencil, crayon, watercolours, oil painting, &c.’. He advertised early the following year that he 'continues his instruction in the delightful and useful accomplishment of Drawing and its various branches’, that his 'system embraces Rudiments, Perspective, Colouring, Sketching, Grouping, Composition &c., &c., &c.’ and that he was now offering evening lessons to 'persons engaged in the day’. He also gave lessons in 'mezzotinto, prismatinto and oriental tinting’ and claimed to be able to execute 'ornamental painting in all its branches’.
One of Capon’s daughters advertised as a milliner and dressmaker in an adjacent column of the newspaper and it is possible that the painter and teacher was, in fact, the eldest son, William Capon junior. Capon senior’s daughter, Ann Elizabeth, married James (Cook) Smith on 15 February 1843.
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- 1992
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