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The Foundation of Perth 1829
The Foundation of Perth 1829 is a 1929 oil-on-canvas painting by George Pitt Morison. It depicts the ceremony by which the town of Perth, Western Australia was founded on 12 August 1829. Morison painted the work as part of Western Australia's centenary celebrations, and presented it to the Art Gallery of Western Australia in February 1929.
The painting took George Pitt Morison almost eighteen months to research and paint. He studied a number of contemporary accounts of the ceremony, and
transferred to the 63rd Regiment on 8 February 1827.
In 1830, he emigrated to Western Australia with his wife, child and a nephew on James Stirling's expedition. They arrived aboard "Wanstead". On the second day after their arrival, he helped Drummer Mitchell deliver the first white child born in the colony.
Milligan was present at the foundation of Perth on 12 August 1829. This event is commemorated in a painting "The Foundation of Perth 1829".
He opened the first hospital in the colony