Ernest Buckmaster
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Ernest William Buckmaster (1897-1968) Australian artist born in Victoria who won the Archibald Prize in 1932 with a portrait of Sir William Irvine.
Buckmaster studied at the National Gallery School in Melbourne [1]. He became a painter of traditional portraits and landscapes with a substantial workrate.
His work has been widely popular in Australia and New Zealand; public art galleries in Australia and New Zealand hold large collections of his work. Buckmaster disliked modern art, publicly denigrating it in letters to a newspaper.
Buckmaster was a Second World War official war artist for the Australian military's Military History Section [2]. Part of his duties took him to Singapore [3].
Buckmaster's work is on loan to the Windsor Hotel in Melbourne.
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| Preceded by John Longstaff |
Archibald Prize 1932 for Sir William Irvine |
Succeeded by Charles Wheeler |
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