John Longstaff

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John Longstaff, portrait created 1918 by George James Coates, National Library of Australia

Sir John Campbell Longstaff (born March 10, 1861 in Clunes, Victoria , † October 1, 1941 in Melbourne ) was an Australian painter . He received the Archibald Prize five times , the most important award in the field of portrait painting in Australia, and was also active as a war painter.

Life

John Longstaff was the second son of Ralph Longstaff and Janet Campbell. He attended the National Gallery School in Melbourne and married Rosa Louisa Crocker in 1887, with whom he later had five children. Because of his painting Breaking the News , created in the same year, he received a travel grant from the National Gallery of Victoria . He traveled u. a. to London and Paris, where he exhibited some of his works in the Salon de Paris . In 1894 Campbell returned to his native Australia, from 1897 to 1900 he had a gallery in the artist building Grosvenor Chambers . In 1901 he visited London again to exhibit at the Royal Academy of Arts . During the First World War he was an official war painter for the Australian infantry, during this time he painted numerous portraits of high military personnel. John Longstaff received numerous awards and honors, so he was u. a. President of the Victorian Artists Society and was awarded in 1928 as the first Australian artists the accolade as a Knight Bachelor . In 1948 Nina Murdoch published a biography of Sir John Longstaff under the title "Portrait in Youth".

Works by John Longstaff (selection)

  • Breaking the News , 1887, for this painting he received a grant from the National Gallery of Victoria

  • Gippsland , 1898, exhibited in the National Gallery of Victoria

  • Arrival of Burke, Wills and King , Burke and Wills Expedition Work , 1907

  • Portrait of Banjo Paterson , 1935

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personal data
SURNAME Longstaff, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Longstaff, Sir John Campbell (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Clunes, Victoria
DATE OF DEATH October 1, 1941
Place of death Melbourne