Painter and barrister, was born in Launceston. By profession a barrister, he gave up law in order to study art in Paris then lived in London where he shared a studio in the mid-1890s with his cousin, Lily Allport . He returned to Tasmania after WWI and lived in Launceston until 1938, then at Penguin. He died at Latrobe, Tasmania.
In September 2002 Masterpiece Fine Art Gallery was offering his pastel portrait of Evelyn for sale at $4,500.It had been shown in the Royal British Colonial Society of Artists Dominions and States Exhibition in 1918 (cat.5), when he was living at 9 Elm Tree Road, St John’s Wood. It is extremely close to Lily Allport’s portraits.
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- Date written:
- 1999
- Last updated:
- 2011
