Sign writer, banner painter, artistic decorator and delineator of illuminated addresses, painter in oils. Fellows exhibited with the West Australian Society of Arts in 1920.
Federation era art student at Sydney Technical College, whose 'Seascape' was illustrated in the book 'A Quarter Century of Technical Education in NSW'.
Initially working for himself in Bathurst, William then worked in a studio with the Freeman brothers, becoming its proprietor until he retired in 1900.
It would be an understatement to say that E.B. Gibbes was an indefatigable traveller. She documented all her extensive travels from 1905-1912 with photographs.