William Wollaston b. 1821

  • Artist (Draughtsman),
  • Architect (Architect / Interior Architect / Landscape Architect)
Sketcher and farmer, was second of the seven children of Rev. John Ramsden Wollaston and Mary Amelia. He arrived at Australia in 1841, and erected a sound, although architecturally eccentric church at Picton, which he made sketches of.

Citations

  • Erickson, R. (1978), 'Dictionary of Western Australians 1829 1914’, Nedlands, Western Australia.

  • Kerr, E.J. (1978), 'Designing a Colonial Church’, British Theses-In-Print, Doctor of Philosophy, York, England.

  • Burton, A. (ed.), 'Wollaston’s Picton Journal’, Osborne Park, Western Australia.

Initial data sources

  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870