Australian, 20th century, female.
Born in Sydney.
Miniaturist, watercolourist.
While studying in Paris with Camille Carlier-Vignal, Lilian Albert exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français, obtaining an honourable mention in 1930 for a watercolour, The Soup, and a miniature.
Australian, 20th century, male.
Born 1888; died 1973.
Painter (gouache), watercolourist. Landscapes, seascapes.
Sydney, 6 Oct 1976: Seaside, Newport (oil on canvas remounted on board, 18 × 24 ins/46 × 61 cm) AUD 800
Sydney, 21 March 1978: The Loch Etive (1930, watercolour...
Australian, 20th century, male.
Active in Australia from 1888 to the 1920s.
Born 1881, in Middlesborough, North England; died 1965, in London.
Painter.
Altson was a pupil of the English portrait painter, Bernard Lindsay Hall. He studied design and painting at the National Gallery of Victoria Schools in Melbourne ...
Australian, 20th century, male.
Born c. 1920; died 1985.
Sculptor.
Apuatimi, an Aborigine, sculpted figures using the basic traditional technique, whereby the defining features - in other words the eyes, nose, mouth and dress - are painted on and feathers or various other decorations added. The risk of this type of relic of primitive art in the context of a developed society is that the primitive arts are easily reduced to folkloric handicrafts....
British, 19th – 20th century, male.
Active from 1878 active in Australia.
Born 1851, in Surrey; died 1942, in Melbourne.
Painter, watercolourist, pastellist, draughtsman, illustrator. Portraits, genre scenes, landscapes.
Julian Rossi Ashton was a pupil at South Kensington School in London and Académie Julian in Paris. He settled in Australia, founded Sydney Art School in 1896, and taught there. He was a member of the committee of the National Art Gallery in Sydney from 1889 to 1899....
Australian, 19th century, male.
Born in Adelaide.
Painter. Portraits, landscapes.
Will Ashton featured at the exhibition of Australian art held at London's Grafton Gallery in 1898, at the Royal Society for the Arts 1906 exhibition in Sydney, New South Wales, and at the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris in ...
British, 19th century, male.
Born 15 November 1863, in Leeds; died 16 February 1896, in New Zealand.
Painter, illustrator.
Robert Atkinson and Robert Atkinson Fox do not seem to have been related. A pupil of Richard Walter in England, Robert Atkinson also studied in Antwerp and went on to exhibit at the Royal Academy in London....
Australian, 20th century, male.
Born 1914; died 1987.
Painter. Still-lifes.
Alan Douglas Baker mainly painted still-lifes of flower arrangements.
Sydney, 29 March 1982: Still-life (oil on card, 19¼ × 23¼ ins/49 × 59 cm) AUD 850
Sydney, 14 March 1983: Still-life (oil on card...
Australian, 20th century, female.
Born in Australia.
Painter.
Christina Asquith Baker was a pupil of Bachet and Schommer. She exhibited in Paris at the Salon des Artistes Français in 1904.
Australian, 20th century, male.
Active in France.
Born in Adelaide; died 1955.
Painter. Landscapes, still-lifes.
Étaples Artists' Colony.
Arthur Baker-Clack exhibited at the Royal Academy in London, then at the Salon d'Automne in Paris between 1912 and 1934, and at the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts ...
Australian, 20th century, male.
Born 1905; died 1977.
Painter.
The works of Bob Balir Balir Dirdi have a religious and spiritual character. He used ocres on black eucalyptus bark, drawing spindly, streaked figures, whose gestures and poses are magical. He depicted, for example, Mimi Spirits...
Australian, 20th century, male.
Born 1890, in England; died 1964.
Painter.
Ralph Balson lived in Australia from 1913, but did not attend evening classes at Sydney Art School until around 1922. In 1940 he was one of the first artists in Australia to hold an exhibition of abstract art. He was influenced initially by Mondrian, but then specialised in art composed of a juxtaposition of splashes of colour, which gave colour a new expressive value....
Vanuatuan, 20th – 21st century, male.
Active in France.
Born 1965, in Vanuatu (Melanesia).
Painter, draughtsman, installation artist.
Neo-Conceptual Art.
Gilles Barbier graduated from the faculty of letters in Aix-en-Provence and from the Luminy art school in Marseilles. Illustrating expressions or words in their most literal form, declaiming Latin or foreign language proverbs to stuffed animals or transcribing the pages of a dictionary in pictures - the works of Gilles Barbier are a problematic examination of the role of language and thought in relation to art. His work hinges upon the principles of uncertainty and superimposition, allowing him infinite scope to play on all the products of imagination, using scientific and medical terminology (viruses, parasites, clones, trans-schizophrenia) as a means to introduce points of reference into a universe which is constantly undergoing deconstruction. He also lifts objects from their original context and endows them with a disconcerting, strange character - for example, in the ...
Australian, 19th – 20th century, female.
Born in Tasmania.
Sculptor.
Dorothy Willis Barclay exhibited at the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1910.
Australian, 20th century, female.
Born in Melbourne.
Painter.
Caroline Barker was a pupil at the Byam Shaw and Vicat Cole School of Art. She exhibited in Paris at the Salon des Artistes Français in 1926.
Danish, 19th century, male.
Born 2 October 1848, in Faaborg.
Painter.
Robert Barnekow studied at the Copenhagen academy, and exhibited some landscapes and genre scenes between 1878 and 1882. He emigrated to New Zealand in 1890.
New Zealander, 20th century, male.
Born 7 September 1890, in Feilding; died 31 March 1975, in Christchurch.
Painter.
Cranleigh Harper Barton painted watercolours of landscapes and architectural subjects.
Australian, 19th – 20th century, female.
Sculptor.
Baskerville exhibited a statue entitled Young Girl Picking Flowers at the third annual exhibition of the
Australian, 20th century, male.
Born 1896; died 1979.
Painter (gouache). Scenes with figures, landscapes.
Rosebery, 29 June 1976: Yellow Scrub at Sunset (1971, oil on card, 23¼ × 35¼ ins/59 × 89.5 cm) AUD 500
Sydney, 10 March 1980: Australian Landscape (oil on card...
