Pendrill C. Blacket b. 1885 Sydney, NSW

  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Pendril C. Blacket was an artist and silhouette maker, active in Sydney after the Great War. He was the son of artist Cyril Blacket.
Talk | Version history | Updated Oct. 19, 2011 | Created March 1, 2008
Name
Pendrill C. Blacket
Birth date
1885
Birth place
Sydney, NSW
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Other Occupation
  • Soldier
  • Journalist
  • Apiarist
Active Period
  • c.1919-
Languages
  • English
Is Indigenous
No

Born in Sydney in 1885, Pendril C. Blacket was the son of Cyril Blacket , an artist who exhibited with the Royal Art Society of NSW in the 1880s.

Pendrill C. Blacket fought in the Great War and after the conflict became an artist, describing himself as a 'Silhouettist’. In the catalogue for the 40th annual show of the Royal Art Society of NSW in 1919 (p.63), Blacket had a full page advertisement advertising an 'Exhibition of Silhouettes’ at the Studio, 5 Bond Street, Sydney. The large silhouette of a (possibly) bearded man, included in this advertisement, may be William Lister Lister , then president of the Royal Art Society, or perhaps the artist himself.

As well as being a silhouettist, Blacket was an apiarist and at one time edited The Australian Beekeeper . In 1934 he wrote a book titled Talks to beginners in Beekeeping , (T. Dimmock Ltd, West Maitland, NSW).

Writers:
Clifford-Smith, Silas
Date written:
2008
Last updated:
2011
child of
Cyril Blacket
Architect (Architect / Interior Architect / Landscape Architect)
associate of
Cyril Blacket
Architect (Architect / Interior Architect / Landscape Architect)
grandchild of
Edmund Thomas Blacket
Architect (Architect / Interior Architect / Landscape Architect)
Architect
associate of
William Lister Lister
1859
Artist (Painter), Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
relative of
Christian J. Blacket
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Royal Art Society of NSW
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
Royal Art Society of NSW exhibition
1919
Exhibition (exhibited at)
Sydney, NSW
Citations:
  • Blacket, Pendrill C., (1934), Talks to beginners in Beekeeping, (Place: T. Dimmock Ltd, West Maitland, NSW)
  • (1919), 40th annual show of the Royal Art Society of NSW, (Place: Sydney, NSW (Exhibition catalogue), p.63)