Painter and art teacher, trained in Rome and Naples, taught art in Sydney. As well as holding art classes at the Royal Art Society for 28 years, he held private classes from 1898 to 1941 at his studio in the Australian Chambers building, Rowe Street and was an immensely influential teacher of post-impressionist ideas and techniques, an admirer of Cezanne, Van Gogh, Matisse et al. He often gave his students affectionate nicknames, especially the women in his 'Cours pour Dames’. They included Earl Backen, Janna Bruce ('Brucie’), Margaret Coen ('Gunner’), Roy de Maistre, George Duncan , Dora Jarret ('Sweetheart’), Tempe Manning, Arthur Murch , Alison Rehfisch ('Gorgeous’), Grace Cossington Smith ('Mrs Van Gogh’) and Roland Wakelin .
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- Writers:
- Staff Writer
- Date written:
- 1999
- Last updated:
- 2011
