page_title: William Buelow Gould
section_title: Notable works
hierarchical_section_title: William Buelow Gould / Notable works
caption_attribution_description: English: Towtrer Chief of the Port Davey Tribe, Tasmania, c.1933, W.B. Gould, State Library of New South Wales V/91} English: Towtrer Chief of the Port Davey Tribe, Tasmania, c.1933, W.B. Gould, State Library of New South Wales V/91
context_page_description: William Buelow Gould was an English and Van Diemonian painter. He was transported to Australia as a convict in 1827, after which he would become one of the most important early artists in the colony, despite never really separating himself from his life of crime.
  Gould's life in Van Diemen's Land was the subject of the award-winning historical fiction novel Gould's Book of Fish, written by Richard Flanagan, centring on Gould's production of the Sketchbook of fishes. In April 2011 Gould's original Sketchbook of fishes was recognised as a document of world significance by UNESCO.
context_section_description: Gould's work is preserved in many galleries around Australia, as well as being held by private collectors. The Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery in Launceston holds 177 of his botanical works. A number of works, including a self-portrait, hang in the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery in Hobart. His work is also held by the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Entally National House, Franklin House, Launceston, and Narryna Heritage Museum, Hobart. The State Library of New South Wales holds landscapes in oil and watercolour drawings of Tasmanian Aboriginals, including Towtrer of the Port Davey area c.1833.
  Some notable and representative works include his Still life, fruit (1832), Sketchbook of fishes (c1832) (see below), Native orchid, Dipodium punctatum (c1830-1840), Still life, game, River scene with aborigines (1838), and Still life, flowers in a blue jug (c1840).
caption: Towtrer, Port Davey area, Tasmania, c.1833, W. B. Gould
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