William Habgood b. 1806 UK

  • Artist (Painter)
Watercolourist and merchant, came to the Swan River Colony, WA from London in 1830. His only known painting was painted in 1842 and shows an Aboriginal family around a campfire.
Talk | Version history | Updated Oct. 19, 2011 | Created Jan. 1, 1992
Name
William Habgood
Birth date
1806
Birth place
UK
Death date
29 January 1845
Death place
Perth, WA
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Artist (Painter)
Residence
  • London, England, UK
  • Western Australia
Other Occupation
  • Merchant
Arrival
  • 12 March 1830 (Came to the Swan River Colony, WA, from London in the Warrior.)
Active Period
  • 1842
Languages
  • English
Is Indigenous
No
Initial Record Data Source
  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870

watercolourist and merchant, came to the Swan River Colony, Western Australia from London in the Warrior , arriving on 12 March 1830. He was granted 2,400 acres near Fremantle in the 1830s and more land near Northam in the early 1840s. His business interests included a directorship of the Bank of Western Australia and partnerships with his brother Robert Mace Habgood and with Lionel Samson. Habgood’s niece Sarah later married John de Mansfield Absolon , a partner in the Habgood firm during the 1870s. Habgood died of consumption in Perth on 29 January 1845. His only known painting, Scene on Melville Water near Perth, Western Australia (National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT), was painted in 1842 and later retouched by C. Grellet. It shows an Aboriginal family around a campfire.

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Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1992
Last updated:
2011
associate of
Lionel Samson
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
John de Mansfield Absolon
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
sibling of
Robert Mace Habgood
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
relative of
Sarah Absolon
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
Scene on Melville Water near Perth, Western Australia
Date
1842
Held at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT.
Collections
Citations:
  • Chapman, B., (1979), The Colonial Eye, (Place: Art Gallery of Western Australia catalogue, Perth, WA)
  • Erickson, R., (1988), The Bicentennial Dictionary of Western Australians pre 1829-1888, (Place: Nedlands, WA)