AT THE MUSEUM
TASMANIAN CONVICT W. B. GOULD CREATED IMPRESSIVE OIL PAINTINGS – INCLUDING A MEMORABLE FELINE.
IN 1826, WILLIAM BUELOW GOULD, reputedly a porcelain painter in the Spode factory in England, was convicted of stealing a coat and sentenced to transportation to Tasmania. Arriving in Hobart the following year, Gould, then 26, was frequently, a fictional account of his life.)