More Residents of Windsor Square - Exmouth Museum and Heritage Centre registered charity 1216717

By: Geoff Perriam, Assistant Curator
Added: 01 October 2012

Our recent note on Windsor Square and the Squires of Withycombe has brought a number of responses relating to two other occupants of the property.  

Richard Thomas Pentreath  1806 - 1869

Richard Pentreath was one of the most accomplished artists of his generation and his works give an invaluable insight into West Cornwall's places and people before the Newlyn School painters were even born.

Pentreath is best known for his lithographic prints, which were published from 1829, and his pictures were produced as prints throughout his career. He was a master of a wide range of media, however, including oils, watercolours and pastels, and he was greatly acclaimed for both portrait and landscape paintings.

In 1844, Pentreath had his first work accepted for exhibition at the Royal Academy and in subsequent years he exhibited eighteen further works at the Academy.

He died on 17 January 1869, aged 62, in Exmouth at his home, Australia House.

John Lloyd Perriam 1794 - 1861

We received an e-mail from an Editor with the Western Australia Explorers' Diaries Project. 

John Perriam was the Master on H.M.S. Sulphur under Captain Dance which accompanied the first boat load of free settlers here to Western Australia in the transport ship Parmelia arriving June 1829. H.M.S. Sulphur stayed on and John Perriam was instrumental in laying down anchors and chains for buoying the passage between Garden Island and Pulo Carnac off the coast of Fremantle in 1830. John was granted over 2,500 acres of land in the south of Western Australia. The Sulphur returned to England in August 1832.