Hon. Edward Combes b. 1830

Also known as E. Combes, E. Comber, Edward Coombes
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Combes was a painter and politician, recognised for his positions as Executive Commissioner for the colony at the Paris Exhibition of 1878, and trustee of the National Art Gallery of New South Wales.
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painter and politician, entered NSW political life in 1872 and in 1878 was Executive Commissioner for the colony at the Paris Exhibition. He was appointed a trustee of the the National Art Gallery of New South Wales in 1881, and died 1895. A lady in the landscape dated 1890 by E. Combes or Comber is in Bathurst Regional Art Gallery.

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