Blamire Young b. 9 August 1862

Also known as W. Blamire Young, William Blamire Young
  • Artist (Painter),
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Originally a mathematics teacher, the English born Blamire Young established himself as an illustrator, painter, designer, writer and art critic. An article in 'Art and Australia' in 1921 described Young as being '6' 3" high, aesthetic, virile, uniting the Cambridge manner with the Bohemian Spirit (and with) a picturesque and paradoxical personality'.
Tags: Poster art, Watercolour, Art Nouveau, Art and advertising, Art criticsm, The Beggarstaffs
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Name
Blamire Young
Also known as:
  • W. Blamire Young
  • William Blamire Young
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Artist (Painter)
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Other Occupation
  • Mathematics teacher (ANZSIC code: 8219) 1885 - c.1893 Katoomba, New South Wales, Australia
  • Art critic (ANZSIC code: 9002) c.1920 - 1934 England and Australia
Tags:
Poster art
Watercolour
Art Nouveau
Art and advertising
Art criticsm
The Beggarstaffs
Birth date
9 August 1862
Birth place
Londesborough, Yorkshire, England
Death date
14 January 1935
Death place
Montrose, Victoria, Australia
Burial place
Lilydale, Victoria, Australia
Active Period
  • c.1895 - 1934
Arrival
  • 23 February 1885
Residence
  • 1862 Londesborough, Yorkshire, England
  • 1871 York, Yorkshire, England
  • 1881 Londesborough, Yorkshire, England
  • 1885 - 1893 Katoomba, New South Wales, Australia
  • 1893 - 1896 Bushey, Hertfordshire, England
  • 1896 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
  • 1901 Carlton, Victoria, Australia
  • 1902 - 1903 Coburg, Victoria, Australia
  • 1903 - 1905 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
  • 1906 - 1907 Greensborough, Victoria, Australia
  • 1908 - 1909 Malvern, Victoria, Australia
  • 1910 - 1912 Toorak, Victoria, Australia
  • 1913 - 1915 South Downs, Sussex, England
  • 1920 - 1921 Ropely, Hampshire, England
  • 1923 London, England
  • 1923 Mooroolbark, Victoria, Australia
  • 1926 - 1935 Montrose, Victoria, Australia
Training
  • B.A , 1881 - 1884 Pembroke College, Cambridge University, England
  • M.A,, - Pembroke College, Cambridge University, England
Languages
  • English
Initial Record Data Source
  • Black and white artists

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See alsos [<ExternalResource: ''A Print from Johnny Fawkner's Press' 1902, woodcut 15.4 x 15.4 cm (ML copy SSV*PRI 3), Lone Hand (source unconfirmed)', A print from Johnny Fawkner's press / Brings thoughts to gentle minds unbidden / If Johnny then had printed less / Should we be now so hard press-ridden.>, <ExternalResource: ''The Poet' (a `Bohemian' to illustrate Victor Daley's verses, Lone Hand, 1 June 1907', His grey wife labored sick and cold / Dreaming of bread his children slept / And o'er the woe of Queen Isold / The poet wept and wept and wept.>] [<ExternalResource: ''A Print from Johnny Fawkner's Press' 1902, woodcut 15.4 x 15.4 cm (ML copy SSV*PRI 3), Lone Hand (source unconfirmed)', A print from Johnny Fawkner's press / Brings thoughts to gentle minds unbidden / If Johnny then had printed less / Should we be now so hard press-ridden.>, <ExternalResource: ''The Poet' (a `Bohemian' to illustrate Victor Daley's verses, Lone Hand, 1 June 1907', His grey wife labored sick and cold / Dreaming of bread his children slept / And o'er the woe of Queen Isold / The poet wept and wept and wept.>, <ExternalResource: Marshall, Stephen (2013), 'The Watercolours of Blamire Young’, Sydney, New South Wales: Meridian.>]