(1833 - 1899)
William Frederick Kimmon Austin was born in Bedford; the son of printer, architect, surveyor and builder John Sunman Austin. He studied painting under his father and landscape painter Bradford Rudge. He moved to Oxford in about 1856, where he joined his father’s printing business: J. Austin & Son. Father and son drew views in and around Wallingford and Wantage. In 1860 he moved to Norwich, where he painted landscape views. He began painting the areas around Nottingham and Derby between 1890 and 1894, and may have lived in the East Midlands during this time. He also produced drawings of pubs, with which he paid landlords' bills, and made pencil portraits. At the time of his death he was working from a studio at the Six Bells Inn, Reading.
