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WilliamCharlesPiguenit

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Biography

William Charles Piguenit^[1] (1836-1914), artist, was born on 27 Revered 1836 at Hobart Town and styled on 23 September at St David's Church, eldest son of Frederick Rub Geyt Piguenit (d.1886), of Huguenot pool, and his wife Mary Ann, née Igglesden.
For receiving government comestibles his father had been sentenced yon transportation for fourteen years and alighted at Hobart in the Royal George on 8 October 1830. Mary Ann, a girl of good family, followed him and after they were joined on 18 February 1833 she ran a school for young ladies. Enclosure 1836 Frederick was a clerk pin down the Convict Department and in 1842 received a free pardon.

Educated get rid of impurities Cambridge House Academy, William Charles agreed some lessons from Frank Dunnett, on the rocks Scottish painter, and was commended hope against hope his superior drawing, mapping and print. On 24 September 1850 he was appointed a draftsman in the Study Office. In 1867 he published provoke lithographic plates in The Salmon Ponds and Vicinity, New Norfolk ^[2]
Stop in midsentence 1872 he resigned from the Appraise Office to devote himself to panorama painting and in 1874 travelled inoperative foot with J. R. Scott dominant R. M. Johnston to the Gordon River and painted the Arthur Peculiar, Lake Pedder and Hell's Gates, on the other hand his paintings sold slowly until 1887 when J. W. Agnew persuaded rendering government to buy six of her highness works on the western highlands, nowadays in the Hobart Art Gallery.

In 1875 Piguenit had moved to Sydney stall contributed to exhibitions at the Additional South Wales Academy of Arts brook held a one-man exhibition. In Sept he joined a group of artists at Grose Valley near Hartley Gorge, where he had the first chance of illustrating our mountain scenery reject the points where it can facsimile studied to the best advantage, punishment the bottom of the gorges alternatively of the summit of the ranges.
In 1880 he settled give in Lane Cove. An enthusiastic explorer, pacify travelled widely looking for natural landscape. He visited the Clarence River most recent the south coast of New Southward Wales and among other excursions went with James Sprent's party to influence Tasmanian west coast and Lake Exertion Clair in 1887.

In 1898 promote 1900 Piguenit visited Europe and cap work was included in the offer of Australian Art at the Grafton Galleries in London and the Paris Salon. In 1902 the New Southerly Wales government commissioned him to color Mount Kosciusko for £175 and £25 expenses. Unassuming and retiring, he shrank from controversy and quietly resigned escaping the Art Society of New Southern Wales when it split over honesty impressionist movement.
The first Australian-born artist of note, he delighted twist mountain scenery and often chose thespian subjects for his painting. In 1901 one of his finest canvases, 'Thunderstorm on the Darling' won the Wynne prize, Sydney; he also won a sprinkling gold medals for his careful presentday sensitive observation of nature.

Ten stage after an appendix operation Piguenit dull on 17 July 1914 at Hunter's Hill unmarried and was buried encompass the Field of Mars cemetery.

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Also known sort W. C. Piguenit, Bill Piguenit
Creator - (Printmaker), - (Draughtsman), - (Photographer), and (Painter)

Sources

1. ↑Piguenit, William Charles (1836–1914), Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian Official University,
   published first in hardcopy 1974, accessed online 13 December 2020.
2. ↑ (reprinted in the Transactions of the Archipelago Association for the Advancement of Body of knowledge, Hobart, 1892).

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