JEWELLERY, DECORATIVE & FINE ARTS AUCTION Tuesday, 2 November 2021 - 10:00 AM start

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James Peter Quinn (Aust.1869-1951)

Realised: $1,500 plus premium

Lot Details

Portrait of a Woman oil on canvas, signed. 545 x 440mm. Note: Quinn studied at the Melbourne's National Gallery of Victoria Art School, then in Paris at the Académie Julian and the École des Beaux-Arts. He spent time painting at the Etaples art colony in northern France, alongside other Australians including Rupert Bunny and Hilda Rix Nicholas. By 1904, he was a highly successful portrait painter and exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts. His ‘Mère et Fils’ (Wife and Son), was awarded an honourable mention at the Salon, Paris, in 1912. He was commissioned to paint Joseph Chamberlain, the Duchess of York and the Duke of Windsor. He was accredited official war artist for the First AIF during World War I, painting prominent officers in France. Later he returned to Australia where he continued to paint and teach.