William Westall
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William Westall was a British landscape artist best known as one of the first artists to work in Australia.
Portrait of William Westall ARA, by his son Robert Westall, c. 1845.
Cape of Good Hope, View at the Foot of Table Mountain, 1801
South Coast: Cape Leeuwin, Cape Chatham and Eclipse Isles, Westall's first sketch of an Australian landscape
Sydney: Government House, 1802
Pobasso
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Pobasso, also spelt Probasso or Pobassoo, was the chief of a division of the Makassan fleet of perahu in the waters between northern Australia and Indonesia in the late 1700s and early 1800s. The flee
William Westall
…people. Amongst his work in this period is the watercolour Murray Isles, which depicts the islanders coming out to trade; The English Company's Islands: Probasso, a Malay Chief, a portrait of a Macassan trepanger chieftain; and several watercolour copies of Aboriginal cave paintings. The last of these makes Westall the first…
A drawing of Probasso by William Westall onboard Matthew Flinders' ship the Investigator