Frederick William Leist b. 21 August 1873

Also known as Fred Leist
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator),
  • Artist (Painter)
Lleist was an early 20th century Sydney and London painter, cartoonist, war artist and teacher. He was an inaugural council member of the Sydney Society of Artists in 1895 and after the merger (1902-07), a member of the Royal Art Society of NSW. He also trained as a furniture designer working for David Jones and Co., Sydney and painted murals for the Martin Place nightclub Romano's.
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Citations

  • 'NSW Birth Records : 2393/1873; 64/1869; 819/1871’.

  • Fry, Edith M. (June 1924), 'The Work of Fred Leist’, Sydney, NSW : in Art in Australia (3rd Series, Number 8), .

  • Callaway, Anita (1987), 'Fred Leist’, Sydney, NSW : in Historic Houses Trust of NSW Newsletter 12, p 1.

  • McCulloch, Alan (1984), 'Encyclopedia of Australian art’, Melbourne, Vic : Hutchinson of Australia (2nd revised edition).

  • Ryno, Greenwall (1992), 'Artists and Illustrators of the Anglo-Boer War’, Vlaeberg, South Africa : Fernwood Press ; Johannesburg, South Africa : Thorold’s Africana Books [distributor], p 162.

  • Houfe, Simon (1981), 'The dictionary of British book illustrators and caricaturists, 1800-1914’, Woodbridge, Suffolk, England, UK : Antique Collectors’ Club.

  • Moore, William (1934), 'Story of Australian Art vol. ii’, Sydney, NSW : Angus & Robertson (facsimile 1980).

  • Rutledge, Martha (1986), 'Leist, Frederick William (Fred) (1873 – 1945)’, Melbourne, Vic : Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 10, Melbourne University Press, pp 70-71.

  • Taylor, George (c.1902), 'The Spirit of Caricature in the Commonwealth : With incidental remarks on Australian “Black and White”’, in Commonwealth Annual 1902-03.

  • The Strand, pp 23, 663.

  • Rolfe, Patricia (1979), 'The journalistic javelin : an illustrated history of the Bulletin’, Sydney, NSW : Wildcat Press ; Gladesville, NSW : distributed by Golden Press.

  • Coleman, Peter; & Tanner, Les (1967), 'Cartoons of Australian history’, Melbourne, Vic : Nelson.

  • D.H. Souter. “Fred Leist. Artist and Illustrator.” Art and Architecture. %:1, January-February 1908, pp.8- 13. (refererence to David Jones training as furniture designer)

See also

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  • Black and white artists

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