Julian Ashton
Julian Rossi Ashton CBE (27 January 1851 – 27 April 1942) was an English-born Australian artist and teacher. He is best known for founding the Julian Ashton Art School in Sydney and encouraging Australian painters to capture local life and scenery en plein air, greatly influencing the impressionist Heidelberg School movement.
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Portrait of Ashton by George Washington Lambert, 1928, Art Gallery of New South Wales | |
| Born | Julian Rossi Ashton 27 January 1851 Addlestone, Surrey, England |
| Died | 27 April 1942 (aged 91) Bondi, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
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| Movement | Heidelberg School |
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| Elected | Trustee, Art Gallery of New South Wales |
He was a principal organiser of the 1898 Exhibition of Australian Art in London, the first major exhibition of Australian art internationally.
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