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Biography
Sir Arthur Ernest Streeton [1] (1867-1943), artist, was born on 8 April 1867 at Duneed, Victoria, fourth of five children of Charles Henry Streeton, schoolteacher, and his wife Mary, née Johnson, whom Charles had met on his voyage from England in 1854 and married in 1857 on his appointment to Queenscliff.
The family moved to Melbourne in 1874 when Charles joined the administrative staff of the Education Department. They settled at Richmond and Arthur attended the Punt Road State School until 1880 when he became a junior clerk in the office of Rolfe & Co., importers, of Bourke Street.
As a child Arthur liked to draw and sketch in water-colour. He enrolled in night classes at the National Gallery of Victoria School of Design in 1882-87 and in 1886 his skill at sketching led to his being apprenticed as a lithographer to Charles Troedel & Co., of Collins Street.
Streeton's first independently published black-and-white work, 'His First Snake', appeared in the Australasian Sketcher of 24 January 1889. . . . more . . adb.anu.edu
Sir Arthur Ernest Streeton was an Australian landscape painter and a leading member of the Heidelberg School, no acknowledged as the birthplace of Australian Impressionism. He was created a Knights Bachelor in the first New Year honors list of His Majesty King George VI in 1937.
After his wife's death in 1938, Arthur Streeton retired to a cottage he owned at Olinda in the Dandenong Ranges and devoted much of his time to his garden. He died there at the beginning of September 1943, having been received into the Catholic faith during his last long illness, and was buried in Ferntree Gully cemetery. His son Oliver survived him.
Great War Artist
Sources
- ↑ Ann E. Galbally, Streeton, Sir Arthur Ernest (1867–1943), Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University,
published first in hardcopy 1990, accessed online 13 December 2018.
- Find a Grave, database and images accessed 18 September 2022, memorial page for Sir Arthur Ernest Streeton (8 Apr 1867–1 Sep 1943), Find a Grave Memorial ID Find A Grave: Memorial #61457697, citing Ferntree Gully Cemetery, Ferntree Gully, Knox City, Victoria, Australia; Maintained by Brett Williams (contributor 47234529) .
- Arthur Streeton from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. first accessed online the 18th of September, 2022 at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Streeton
- Lieutenant Arthur Ernest Streeton ROLLS from the Australian War Memorial website first accessed online on the 18th of September, 2022.
- Lieutenant Arthur Ernest Streeton from the Australian War Memorial website first accessed online on the 18th of September, 2022.
- Arthur Streeton and the art of war by Mark Whitmore from the Australian War Memorial website first accessed online on the 18th of September, 2022.
- NEW YEAR HONORS from The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954) of Monday 1 February 1937, Page 11. first accessed online on the 18th of September, 2022 at: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/206188390?searchTerm=%22arthur%20Streeton%22%20Knight
- COMMONWEALTH LIST. from the The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954) of Monday 1 February 1937, Page 11. first accessed online on the 18th of September, 2022 at: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/206188446?searchTerm=%22arthur%20Streeton%22%20Knight
- Studio portrait of the Streeton family. Identified from left to right, Lieutenant Arthur Ernest Streeton, Official War Artist; his son, Oliver Streeton and wife Mrs Streeton. a Public Domain photograph available from the AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIAL at: https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C964261
- Prominent Personalities ARTHUR STREETON from the Table Talk (Melbourne, Vic. : 1885 - 1939) of Thursday 29 July 1926, Page 8. first accessed on TROVE on the 18th of September, 2022 at: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/146595843
