Liardet's Beach and Hotel in their heyday

1 drawing : watercolour with pen and ink, gouache and pencil ; 15.2 x 35.3 cm.
Wilbraham Frederick Evelyn Liardet, hotel-keeper and water-colourist, was born on 17 July 1799 at Chelsea, London; arrived in Melbourne with his family in 1839, en-route to Sydney, but decided to stay in Melbourne; settled in Port Melbourne where he ran a 'mail cart' to the city centre; he had several businesses with mixed success; died in Wellington, New Zealand 1878.