William Belcher (1883–1949) was a New Zealand painter who spent much of the later part of his life in Fiji where he produced a collection of about 90 water-colour paintings illustrating the birdlife of the islands.
He grew up on a farm at Taranaki where he showed an early interest in sketching and painting.
He married in 1918 and worked by operating river launches in the Te Aroha region.
[1] In the early 1920s Belcher moved to Fiji where he managed a shooting gallery in Suva.
[1] Belcher married for a second time in 1938, to Rose Tapa’au Adams, a Samoan from Apia.