commercial artist, drew Edwardian glamour girls for coloured postcards, including a Fairy Butterfly series and a set of allegorical women representing each Australian state.
Born Edward (Edouard?) Tenri Leopold Pierre de Closy d’Errey in Mauritius in 1859, trained in Paris, arrived in Sydney in 1900. Known in Australia as Edward Tiger De Closay.
Exhibited Royal Art Society of NSW, 1910. [cat 108. School of Self-Defence. Artist’s address 58 Elizabeth Street].
Presumably father or brother of printmaker and violin maker Ernest Tiger De Closay (d.1936).
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- Writers:
- Kerr, Joan
- Date written:
- 1996
- Last updated:
- 2007
