E. R. Simpson

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E. R. Simpson was a sketcher. The work of this artist was included in the 1859 and 1868 exhibitions of the South Australian Society of Arts.
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sketcher, had the watercolour A Select Party included in the 1859 exhibition of the South Australian Society of Arts. At the 1868 exhibition Simpson won a prize for the best copy of a watercolour or chromolithograph. The South Australian Register of 12 December called the head 'a beautiful piece of manipulation’ but added that it was unfortunate that the artist had selected as a model 'a lady with so impossible a mouth’.

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Date written:
1992
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2011

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  • [Royal] South Australian Society of Arts (associate of)