William Beckwith McInnes b. 18 May 1889

Also known as Billy McInnes
  • Artist (Painter)
Leading interwar portrait and landscape painter.
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Australian portrait painter active in the early twentieth century. McInnes won the Archibald portrait prize seven times (1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1926, 1930 and 1936). He was also awarded the Wynne prize, for a landscape painting, in 1918.

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References [<ExternalResource: 'Archibald Prize (website)'.>, <ExternalResource: Haese, Richard (1986), 'McInnes, William Beckwith (Billy) (1889-1939)', Australian Dictionary of Biography - Volume 10, p 289.>] [<ExternalResource: 'Archibald Prize (website)'.>]