William Charles Piguenit
Paintings
The flood in the Darling 1890
An Australian fjord
Mount Olympus. Lake St Clair. Tasmania the source of the Derwent
Kosciusko
An Australian mangrove. Ebb tide
Near Liverpool. New South Wales
Rain Storm over Parramatta
Mountain Landscape
The Clouds Drop Fatness. A Western Pastoral. New South Wales
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The flood in the Darling 1890
William Charles Piguenit (27 August 1836 – 17 July 1914) was an Australian landscape painter. 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 had 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.
New South Wales
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 17 July 1914 and was buried in the Field of Mars cemetery. Inscription on headstone (Field of Mars Cemetery: C of E, Sec. C. Grave 618): IN LOVING MEMORY OF WILLIAM CHARLES PIGUENIT DIED 17th JULY 1914; AGED 77 YEARS. "UNTO THE UPRIGHT THERE ARISETH LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS"
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 (i.e. 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
Notes
W.C. Piguenit of Hunters Hill at www.ryde.nsw.gov.au
Resources
Diary, 1871, 1873, 1875, State Library of Queensland
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 Queensland 13 Sep. 1875 – 13 Oct. 1875, including i.a. notes concerning sketches, photographs and landscape scenery.
William Hodges
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