biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1856–1931)
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| biography:
| Painter, born in Dorchester, Dorset, S England, UK. He emigrated as a child, and studied at the Carlton School of Design and at the National Gallery School, both in Melbourne, before returning to London to attend the Royal Academy Schools. His best work, which deals with pioneering life in the bush, was produced in Australia in the late 1880s and 1890s. He was commissioned to paint the official opening of the first Australian federal parliament, a subject which required over 250 individual portraits. |
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