Arthur Wakefield Bassett

- 1947

• Name	Arthur Wakefield Bassett
  Gender	Male
  _UID	4B57FAE175EEE64C9D817B6A54A151136E8B
  Death	1947	Gooseberry Hill
  Burial	Karrakatta, Western Australia
  Notes	BASSETT, Arthur Wakefield Arthur Wakefield Bassett was born on 20 April 1869. He trained at the National Gallery of Victoria Schools, Melbourne and was involved in artists' camps at Charterisville, renting a lodge there for half a crown a week in September 1890, along with Sonny Pole, Tom Humphrey, Hal Waugh, Fred Williams, et al. Exhibited with the 'Vics'. At the 1893 Victorian Artists' Society exhibition the Bulletin noted that "Some promising little landscapes by A.W. Bassett are less out of harmony with the real appearance of things than many others" (Bulletin, 13 May 1893, 8). Bassett moved to Western Australia after 1893. In 1930 he was awarded the Perth Centenary Prize.
  Person ID	I13	123B William Bassett of Plymouth, Devonshire, England
  Last Modified	21 Aug 2013

  
  

  Father	William John Bassett,   b. 1831, Plymouth, Devon, England d. 21 Aug 1874, St. Peter's Church, Melbourne, Australia (Age 43 years)
  Mother	Lucy Burgess,   b. 13 May 1841, Linton, Kent, England d. 1926 (Age 84 years)
  Marriage	11 May 1859	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
  Family ID	F2	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Florence Hildegarde Harris
  Marriage	1900	Claremont, Western Australia
  Family ID	F6	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart