William Bland

  • Artist (Painter)
William Bland was a portrait painter in Sydney in the late 1840s. He exhibited with the Society for the Promotion of Fine Arts in Australia in June 1849 but his entry failed to find favour with the Sydney Morning Herald critic.
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portraitist, painted an untitled portrait lent to the 1849 exhibition of the Society for the Promotion of the Fine Arts in Australia. It failed to please the Sydney Morning Herald critic of 2 June 1849, who declared, 'we have seen much better specimens from the hand of this young artist’. His address was given in the catalogue as the Royal Hotel, Sydney, but he was probably a son of the prominent Sydney emancipist and medical practitioner William Bland.

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Date written:
1992
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2011

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