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William Piguenit
Australian painter
William Charles Piguenit (27 August – 17 July ) was an Australian landscape painter.
Early life
Piguenit was born in Hobart, Tasmania, to Frederick Le Geyt Piguenit and Mary Ann née Igglesden.
Frederick had been transported to Van Diemen's Land in , with Mary Ann following him. They married in Hobart in [1] His first artistic influences came from his mother, who set up a school for young ladies where she taught "French, music and drawing".
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Career
In he became a draftsman with the Tasmanian Lands & Survey Department, working in particular on the Geological Survey of Tasmania. During this employment Piguenit provided lithographic illustrations for The Salmon Ponds and vicinity, New Norfolk, Tasmania.[2] He took painting lessons from Scottish immigrant artist Frank C.
Dunnett (–). Until he got a good price for a painting from Sir James Agnew, the Premier of Tasmania, he had little success as a painter. Piguen