painter and engraver, was born at South Yarra on 11 August 1869. Louis Buvelot and his wife took an interest in him. Employed by David Syme & Co. as engraver for the Age , Bennett lived in High Street, St Kilda, later at Healesville and Yarra Glen. He married Zilpah Pyke (or Pike); their only son, Royden Louis Charles Bennett, died in France during World War I.
Colonial & Indian Exhibition, London 1886: Victorian Court – Bennett, Chas. S., 29 Darling-street, South Yarra – Ten water colours descriptive of Victorian scenery.
Exhibited with the Australian Artists Association (Victoria) in 1887, in both its winter and summer shows.
Exhibited in the 1888-89 Melbourne Centennial International Exhibition and won a Jury award, 3rd order of merit (Oil and Watercolour Painting) for Bush Track . The catalogue gives his address as 271 Collins-st, Melbourne. Other works exhibited in the Victorian Artists’ Gallery (Watercolours) included no.137 Old Melbourne Stables , City Marble Yard , Blackwood Ranges and Near Mentone .
C.S. Bennett of 18 Collins-street east, Melbourne exhibited in the Victorian Court Class 2 (Various paintings, drawings etc) cat. no.2 Near Dandenong , At Blackwood and The Old Home , and class 5 (Engravings and lithographs) cat. no.162 Wood engravings, descriptive of Australian life, and landscape.
C.S. Bennett died at Mornington on 22 April 1930.
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- 1996
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- 2007
