Julian rossi ashton biography
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Julian Ashton CBE
Julian Rossi Ashton CBE (1851-1942), art teacher, artist and critic, trained in art in London and at the Académie Julian in Paris before coming to Australia to work on the Illustrated Australian News in 1878. After some years in Melbourne, in 1883 he moved to Sydney to work on the Picturesque Atlas of Australasia, which involved him in a good deal of travel. Having begun giving private art classes in 1886, in the early 1890s he taught for the Art Society of New South Wales, but in 1895 he established his own school in King Street. There, his students included George Lambert, Thea Proctor, Elioth Gruner and Sydney Long. In 1906 he opened the Sydney Art School in the Queen Victoria Markets; from 1935, relocated to George Street, it became the Julian Ashton School, students of which included William Dobell, Jean Bellette and Douglas Dundas. Through the 1990s Ashton was a Trustee of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, in which capacity he encouraged the purchase of works by Australian artists. In 1898 he organised the show of Australian art at the Grafton Gallery in London. At that time, he was president of the Society of Artists, which evolved through amalgamation into the Royal Art Society of New South Wales. In 1907 he moved to re-establish the Society of Art
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- Name
- Julian Rossi Ashton
Also known as J. R. A.
- Gender
- Male
- Roles
- Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
- Artist (Painter)
- Other Occupation
- Gallery Owner (ANZSIC code: 4279) (Gallery Owner established the Fine Arts Gallery in Bligh Street in 1911 with Harley Griffiths senior and Hardy Wilson)
- Art teacher and founder of the Sydney [later Julian Ashton] Art School (ANZSIC code: 8212)
- freelance illustrator (ANZSIC code: 6924)
- Birth date
- 27 January 1851
- Birth place
- Addlestone, Surrey, England, UK, Addlestone, Surrey (Greater London), England, UK
- Birth note
- (Greater London)
- Death date
- 27 April 1942
- Death place
- Bondi, Sydney, NSW
- Arrival
- June 1878 (arrived Melbourne on board the 'Cuzco')
- Residence
- c.1887 North Queensland
- c.1887- Western Australia
- c.1883 - c.1942 Sydney, NSW
- June 1878 - 1883 Melbourne, Vic.
- c.1868 - c.1877 London, England, UK
- 1918 - 1942 Bondi, NSW
- Training
- c.1874 l'Académie Julien, Paris, France
- c.1868 - c.1871 West London School of Art, London, England, UK
- Languages
- Initial Record Data Source
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