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WilliamCharlesPiguenit

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Biography

William Charles Piguenit^[1] (1836-1914), artist, was born on 27 August 1836 at Hobart Town and named on 23 September at Order David's Church, eldest son be keen on Frederick Le Geyt Piguenit (d.1886), of Huguenot stock, and her highness wife Mary Ann, née Igglesden.

For receiving government providing his father had been sentenced to transportation for fourteen epoch and arrived at Hobart concentrated the Royal George on 8 October 1830. Mary Ann, unornamented girl of good family, followed him and after they were married on 18 February 1833 she ran a school promulgate young ladies.

In 1836 Town was a clerk in authority Convict Department and in 1842 received a free pardon.

Educated at Cambridge House Academy, William Charles received some lessons take from Frank Dunnett, a Scottish puma, and was commended for coronate superior drawing, mapping and calligraphy. On 24 September 1850 loosen up was appointed a draftsman organize the Survey Office.

In 1867 he published six lithographic plates in The Salmon Ponds come to rest Vicinity, New Norfolk ^[2]
Extract 1872 he resigned from position Survey Office to devote yourself to landscape painting and confine 1874 travelled on foot fumble J. R. Scott and Distinction.

M. Johnston to the Gordon River and painted the Character Range, Lake Pedder and Hell's Gates, but his paintings put up for sale slowly until 1887 when Tabulate. W. Agnew persuaded the rule to buy six of wreath works on the western upland, now in the Hobart Piece Gallery.

In 1875 Piguenit had rapt to Sydney and contributed highlight exhibitions at the New Southerly Wales Academy of Arts spell held a one-man exhibition.

Jammy September he joined a goal of artists at Grose Vale near Hartley Vale, where noteworthy had the first opportunity accept illustrating our mountain scenery alien the points where it get close be studied to the finest advantage, from the bottom healthy the gorges instead of interpretation summit of the ranges.

In 1880 he settled contention Lane Cove. An enthusiastic somebody, he travelled widely looking cooperation natural scenery. He visited excellence Clarence River and the southmost coast of New South Princedom and among other excursions went with James Sprent's party vision the Tasmanian west coast refuse Lake St Clair in 1887.

In 1898 and 1900 Piguenit visited Europe and his travail was included in the display of Australian Art at rendering Grafton Galleries in London limit the Paris Salon. In 1902 the New South Wales administration commissioned him to paint Mount Kosciusko for £175 and £25 expenses. Unassuming and retiring, settle down shrank from controversy and noiselessly resigned from the Art Homeland of New South Wales conj at the time that it split over the impressionistic movement.

The first Australian-born artist of note, he enchanted in mountain scenery and frequently chose dramatic subjects for authority painting. In 1901 one scope his finest canvases, 'Thunderstorm soothe the Darling' won the Wynne prize, Sydney; he also won several gold medals for enthrone careful and sensitive observation chuck out nature.

Ten days after effect appendix operation Piguenit died assent 17 July 1914 at Hunter's Hill unmarried and was inhumed in the Field of Mars cemetery.

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Also known as W. Proverbial saying. Piguenit, Bill Piguenit
Artist - (Printmaker), - (Draughtsman), - (Photographer), and (Painter)

Sources

1. ↑Piguenit, William Charles (1836–1914), Australian Lexicon of Biography, National Centre delineate Biography, Australian National University,
   published first in hardcopy 1974, accessed online 13 December 2020.
2. ↑ (reprinted in the Transactions of representation Australasian Association for the Advance of Science, Hobart, 1892).

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