painter. Agricultural Society of NSW 1873: Exhibits from Academy of Arts – Water Colours – no.171 A Rainy Day – A Day’s Fishing – Digger’s Hut – Cove in Sydney Harbour.
Agricultural Society of NSW Exhibition 1874: Fine Arts – Competitive – Exhibits from the New South Wales Academy of Art – Water Colours – Wm Bennett, NSW – no.76 Sydney Harbour; no.81 Near Burwood; no.86 The Lyn, North Devon.
Third annual exhibition of works of Colonial Artists by NSW Academy of Art: “Mr William Bennett sends three water colours drawings of merit; the best to our mind being no.84 – A View near Burwood“ (Sydney Mail, 11 April 1874, p.479). NSW Academy of Art, third annual exhibition 1874: William Bennett – Amateur – NSW – oil paintings – no.84 Near Burwood – original – competitive; no.85 The Lyn, North Devon – original – competitive; no.86 Sydney Harbour – original – competitive.
Agricultural Society of NSW exhibition 1875: Water-Colours, Landscapes, W. Bennett, New South Wales, highly commended … W. Bennett, New South Wales, commended. Marine [water-colours] W. Bennett New South Wales , [first] prize.
Fourth annual exhibition of the NSW Academy of Art 1875: William Bennett – Artist – NSW – Water-colors – no.90 Giants of the Forest – original; no.91 Sydney Heads, from Heights above Middle Harbour – original – £10.10.0; no.92 Bantry Bay, Middle Harbour – original – £12.12.0; no.96 Coast, Bondi, looking South – original; no.97 Coast, Bondi, looking north – original; no.98 Five Dock Bay, Parramatta River – original – £10.10.0; no.99 ditto – original – £10.10.0; no.100 Blackwall [Blackwattle?] Bay, ditto – original; no.101 Near Willoughby Falls, Middle Harbour – original – £10.10.0; no.102 Fig Tree Point – original – £7.7.0. “New South Wales Academy of Art Exhibition 1875 … Water Colors … Society’s Silver Medal (to artist) no.97 Wm Bennett, artist, NSW” (Sydney Mail, 29 May 1875, p.681). “Prizes: Water Colours – Society’s Silver Medal (to [professional] artists): No.97, Coast at Bondi, looking north, by William Bennett, New South Wales. ... Mr William Bennett contributes a number of sketches, comprising some very pretty views, rendered with great taste and skill. One of these, a view of the coast of Bondi, looking north (no.97), secured the silver medal of the society. ... Some of Mr W. Bennett’s water-colour sketches are well worth inspection. No 90, Giants of the Forest, is an excellent delineation of forest scenery, painted with much effect. Sydney Heads (no.91) and Bantry Bay (No.92), by the same artist, are remarkably alike for their fidelity to nature” (Sydney Mail, 3 April 1875).
Exhibited at NSW Academy of Art fifth annual exhibition 1876: W. Bennett – Artist – Victoria – Water Colors – no.59. Deepdene, Glenmore Road – Original; no.74 On the Peel River, Bee[tire?] – original – £26.5.0.
At sixth annual exhibition of the NSW Academy of Art 1877: – water colors – Bennett, W. – no.68 Mossman’s Bay; no.72 Near Tamworth – Early Morning – £15.15.0; no.126 Near the Rocks, Murrurundi – £15.15.0. “Mr W. Bennett sends three [works], of which Near the Rocks, Murrurundi (126) is the most ambitious” (Sydney Mail, 7 April 1877, p.424).
Exhibited at [Royal] Art Society of NSW, 1885.
Colonial Fine Art Exhibition, Burlington Gallery, London, 1886: W. Bennett – no.7 Sydney Harbour from Port Elizabeth.
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