William Hardy Wilson b. 1881 Campbelltown, NSW

Also known as:
  • Hardy Wilson
  • Billy Wilson
  • Architect (Architect / Interior Architect / Landscape Architect)
  • Artist (Draughtsman) , (Printmaker) , (Painter)
Significant Sydney based interwar architect, artist, author, orientalist and futurist.
Talk | Version history | Updated Oct. 19, 2011 | Created Jan. 1, 2009
Name
William Hardy Wilson
Also known as:
  • Hardy Wilson
  • Billy Wilson
Birth date
14 February 1881
Birth place
Campbelltown, NSW
Death date
1955
Death place
None
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Architect (Architect / Interior Architect / Landscape Architect)
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
  • Artist (Printmaker)
  • Artist (Painter)
Residence
  • Sydney, NSW
Other Occupation
  • Author
  • Architect
Languages
  • English
Is Indigenous
No

As well as being an important interwar period architect, Hardy Wilson was an artist who produced many paintings and drawings which often featured buildings and imagined landscapes. His first architectural commission was Meryon, a Sydney house built for artist and critic Lionel Lindsay. His best known commission was Eryldene a house built for Professor E.G. Waterhouse, a linguist and trustee of the Art Gallery of NSW, in Gordon, Sydney.

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Writers:
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
child of
William Joshua Wilson
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
child of
Jessie Elizabeth Shepherd
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
spouse of
Margaret Rachel Reid
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Julian Rossi Ashton
1851
Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator), Artist (Painter)
associate of
George Lambert
1873
Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator), Artist (Painter)
Collections
Citations:
  • Edwards, Zeny, (2001), William Hardy Wilson, (Place: Watermark Press)