John E. Sommers b. c.1 January 1846

Also known as Jack Sommers, John Sommers, Senior John E. Sommers
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John (Jack) Sommers was a painter and illustrator, with association with the Heidelberg School artists in Melbourne.
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painter, poet and illustrator, was associated with the Heidelberg School artists in Melbourne (Juliet Peers). Jack Sommers illustrated 'Jim’s Bargain’ by Alice A. Kenny, a Maori tale published in Lone Hand on 1 April 1910, 640-46, that includes a drawing of a young and beautiful 'bad slave’ of the chief 'Tied by her two thin wrists to a post … moaning with pain and despair’ (641).

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1996
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2007

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