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.

Citations

  • Walsh, G. P. (1967), 'James Wilshire’, Melbourne, Vic : Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 2, [Pike, D. (ed.)], Melbourne University Press.

  • Dixson, W. (1923), 'Notes on Australian artists’, Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, vol. 9, no. 3.

  • Moore, W. (1934), 'The Story of Australian Art’, Sydney, NSW : Angus and Robertson (facsimile reprint, 1980) 2 volumes.

  • (1853), Sydney Morning Herald, 10-19.

  • Merrillees, R., 'Rosie Wilshire’, Manuscript.

  • 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.

  • (family historian) Information sourced from, Baker, Edmund Rees (Ted).

  • Information sourced from Lennon, Jane.

  • (1850), Sydney Morning Herald, 05-03.

  • (1850), Sydney Morning Herald, 07-13.

See also

  • 'DAA p. 863: William Pitt Wilshire, Camp of 'Blanket', A Frequent Visitor to 'Clovelly' Watson's Bay c. 1886, oil on canvas, 42.5 x 58.4 cm. Mitchell Library.'.

Initial data sources

  • DAA with additions