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Friday, December 13, 2019

MOUNT BYRON PAINTED BY MARTHA COPE



MARTHA COPE (1860-1943)
Mount Byron (341 m - 1119 ft) 
Australia (Tasmania) 


The mountain 
Mount Byron   (341 m - 1119 ft) is a hill in the Somerset Region, Queensland, Australia. The rugged terrain of the D'Aguilar Range in the east is protected within the D'Aguilar National Park.
Brown & Broad operated a timber sawmill at Mount Byron around 1912. By 1923 Raymond & Hossack were also operating a timber mill in the area. Mining operations commenced in 1918.Mount Byron State School opened on 29 May 1919 and closed on 17 January 1930.A large bushfire occurred in October 1926.

The painter 
Martha Cope is an Australian painter  about wee do not have any biographical details.

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2019 - Wandering Vertexes...
by Francis Rousseau

Wednesday, August 9, 2017

MOUNT BYRON BY WILLIAM CHARLES PIGUENIT


WILLIAM CHARLES PIGUENIT (1836 -1914), 
Mount Byron (1,338 m- 4,390 ft)
Australia (Tasmania) 

In  Lake Petrarch, Mount Byron, Vale of Cuvier, 1888, oil on card, Private collection 

The mountain 
Mount Byron (1,338 m - 4,390 ft) is a mountain in Tasmania, south of Byron Gap, west of Lamonts Lookout and east of Mount Cuvier in the southeast of Australia (not to be confused with Mount Byron in Queensland) . The nearest town to Mount Byron is Queenstown about 42 km away. Queenstown has a population of about around 2,400 (based on the 2001 census). Mount Byron is in the local government area of 'Central Highlands'.  Destinations nearby to Mount Byron include Byron Gap, Lamonts Lookout, Mount Cuvier and Coal Hill.  Landmarks in the area include Lake Mingundie, Lake Petrarch, Lake Helen and Lake Oenone.
The annual rainfall of Mount Byron is about 1906 mm.

The painter 
William Charles Piguenit also known as W.C. Piguenit or Bill Piguenit was an Australian landscape painter, amateur photographer, draughtsman and explorer, born in Hobart Town, Van Diemen’s Land. The family can be traced back to Pons, in the province of Saintonge, France, from which, as Huguenots, they escaped after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 to settle in Bristol, Somerset. William Charles attended Cambridge House Academy in Hobart; a school report of 18 December 1849 praises his 'mapping, particularly that of Van Diemen’s Land’. In September 1850, as an assistant draughtsman, he joined the Tasmanian Lands and Survey Department where much of his time was spent preparing maps of Tasmania. 
When Piguenit exhibited at Melbourne in 1870, showing a watercolour sketch of Mount Wellington from the Huon Road, the Daily Telegraph of 20 July called him 'a young artist who gives promise of better things’. His love for the Tasmanian landscape and his improved artistic ability led to his being invited to accompany James R. Scott’s expedition to Arthur Plains and Port Davey in March 1871 as official artist. The results of the trip formed the basis for later illustrations in the Picturesque Atlas of Australasia and in R.M. Johnston’s Systematic Account of the Geology of Tasmania. 
Having won another silver medal from the academy in 1875 for Mount Olympus, Lake St Clair, Tasmania (see above), Piguenit sent five of his Grose Valley oil landscapes to the academy’s 1876 exhibition and was awarded a certificate of merit for one, though the Sydney Mail critic was tepid in his praise: 'It would be enough to say that they are all very nicely painted and that all have about the same colour and tone’.
Regarded as the leading Australian-born landscape painter in the latter part of the nineteenth century, Piguenit was a founding committee member of the Art Society of New South Wales (elected Vice President in 1886) and regularly showed work in its exhibitions. He was represented in many major exhibitions, such as the 1880 Melbourne International, and he received many awards, including silver medals in 1874 and 1875 from the NSW Academy of Art, two second prizes at the 1888 Melbourne Centennial International Exhibition and gold medals from the 1883 Calcutta International and the 1888 Queensland Art Society and Tasmanian Juvenile Industries exhibitions. He was hung in the Paris Salon in 1893 and at the Chicago World’s Fair in 1894 (Scene on the Upper Nepean River, now AGNSW). A Tasmanian view near Prince of Wales Bay was presented by the Government House Literary Society to their founder and patron, Lady Hamilton, on her departure in 1892.