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William Charles Piguenit (27 August 1836 – 17 July 1914) was an Australian landscape painter. Piguenit was born in Hobart, Tasmania, to Frederick Le Geyt Piguenit and Mary Ann neé Igglesden. Frederick had been transported to Van Diemen's Land in 1830, with Frederick's fiancee, Mary Ann, following him. They married in Hobart in 1833(External Link

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   William’s first artistic influences came from his mother, who set up a school for young ladies where she taught "French, music and drawing".
   In 1850 William became a draftsman with the Tasmanian Lands & Survey Department, working in particular on the Geological Survey of Tasmania.
   During this period of employment Piguenit provided lithographic illustrations for, The Salmon Ponds and vicinity, New Norfolk Tasmania (Hobart Town: M.L. Henn, [1867]).
   He took painting lessons from the Scottish painter Frank Dunnett but until he got a good price for a painting from Sir James Agnew he'd little success as a painter.
   Piguenit left the public service in 1873 to devote his time more fully to painting and his oils and watercolours of Tasmanian landscapes soon brought favourable reviews.
   He was a participant in the venture to the western part of Tasmania - as found in the book Walk to the West.
   After moving to NSW in 1880 Piguenit's subjects included the Darling, Nepean and Hawkesbury Rivers as well as the Lane Cove River close to his Hunters Hill home. It was also at this time that he became one of the founders of the Art Society of New South Wales.
   Later, during a visit to Tasmania he was noticed by the governor's wife, Lady Hamilton and a large number of his drawings were purchased by the government for the Hobart gallery.
   His Flood in the Darling was purchased for the National Gallery of New South Wales (now Art Gallery of New South Wales) in 1895. In 1898 and 1900 he visited Europe, exhibiting at London and Paris. Returning to Australia he won the Wynne Prize in 1901 with his Thunder storm on the Darling, then in 1903 he was commissioned by the National Gallery of New South Wales trustees to paint Mount Kosciusko By the end of the century he was regarded as the leading Australian-born landscape painter.
   Piguenit died on July 17 1914 and was buried in the Field of Mars cemetery.

Collections

Art Gallery of New South Wales Art Gallery of South Australia

An Australian fjord, n.d.

Geelong Art Gallery National Gallery of Australia

Hell's Gates, Davey River, Tasmania, 1871

Near Liverpool, New South Wales, c.1908

On the Nepean, New South Wales, n.d. National Library of Australia

Mt. Olympus, Lake St. Clair, Tasmania, 1878

On the Craycroft (for example Cracroft), Tasmania, 1878

Tasmanian landscape, c. 1880

Mount King William from Lake George, Tasmania, 1887

State Library of Tasmania

On the Derwent, n.d.

In the Grose Valley, 1887

Lane Cove from below the Bridge, near Sydney N.S.Wales, n.d.

Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (TMAG)

The Tower of Strength, c. 1900

Resources

Diary, 1871, 1873, 1875

, State Library of New South Wales Account of trips from Hobart Town to Port Davey 14 Feb. 1871-9 Mar. 1871, from Hobart Town to Lake St. Clair 8 Feb. 1873-10 Mar. 1873 and from Hobart Town to New South Wales 13 Sep. 1875-13 Oct. 1875, including i.a. notes concerning sketches, photographs and landscape scenery.Further Information

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