Wilbraham Frederick Evelyn Liardet b. 17 July 1799

  • Artist (Painter)
A nineteenth-century watercolourist, he first turned to painting as a way out of debt. He subsequently painted historical views of Melbourne.

Citations

  • (1967), 'Wilbraham Frederick Evelyn Liardet’, Melbourne, Vic : in Australian Dictionary of Biography, (Volume 2), Pike, D. (ed.).

  • Adams, S. (1972), 'Introduction and Notes’, Melbourne, Vic : in Liardet’s Watercolours of Early Melbourne [Bate, W. (ed.)].

  • Downer, C. and Phipps, J., (1985), 'Victorian Vision: 1834 Onwards’, Melbourne, Vic : National Gallery of Victoria catalogue.

  • Greig, A.W. (1916), 'The Liardets of the beach’, Victorian Historical Magazine 5 (1916/1917).

  • McCrae, Georgiana (1978), 'Georgiana’s Journal’, Sydney, NSW [McCrae, H. (ed.)].

  • Snowden, C. (1991), 'Wilbraham Liardet’, in Swiss Artists in Australia 1777-1991, [Pearce, B. (ed.)], Art Gallery of New South Wales catalogue, Sydney, NSW.

  • Information sourced from Cudmore, P. A.

  • Information sourced from Parker, Anthony Carrol.

  • Information sourced from Liardet, Phylis Marcell Evelyn.

Initial data sources

  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870