William Pitt Wilshire b. 1807

  • Artist (Draughtsman),
  • Artist (Photographer),
  • Artist (Painter)
Native colonial whose claim to fame as first-born Australian artist belied the fact he took up landscape only because of the threat of photography to portraiture and his earliest colour paintings were little more than retouched photographs.
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associate of
John Skinner Prout
1805
Artist (Printmaker), Artist (Painter)
relative of
Alice Emily Wilshire
1807
Artist (Draughtsman)
grandparent of
Rosalie Wilshire
1807
Artist (Painter), Artist

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