1. Julian Rossi Ashton was an English-born Australian artist and teacher.
18 Facts About Julian Ashton
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Julian Ashton 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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Julian Ashton 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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Julian Ashton's father died in 1864, and around age 15 he began working in the engineers' office of either the Great Western Railway or Great Eastern Railway.
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Julian Ashton then went to study at the Academie Julian in Paris and began illustrating books.
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Julian Ashton had considerable success as a painter, exhibiting at the Royal Academy of Arts and elsewhere.
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Julian Ashton emigrated to Melbourne in 1878 under contract to David Syme's Illustrated Australian News and lived there for five years before moving to Sydney.
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Julian Ashton was the elected president of the Art Society of New South Wales from 1886 to 1892.
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Julian Ashton is known for his paintings Evening, Merri Creek, A Solitary Ramble and others.
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George Lambert painted a portrait of Julian Ashton which is in the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
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The Sydney Art School, which Ashton established in 1890 as the "Academy Julian", has been an influential art school in Australia.
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Julian Ashton students have included William Dobell, John Olsen, Fred Leist, Brett Whiteley, Lola Ridge, Justine Kong Sing, Anne Dangar, and Nora Heysen.
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Howard Ashton's son, J Richard Ashton, and his wife Wenda ran the School from 1960, when, among many gifted artists, Ian Chapman and Archibald Prize winner Francis Giacco attended, until 1977 when Phillip Ashton became Principal, this being the time of Hadyn Wilson, political cartoonist Bill Leak and artist Paul Newton.
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Julian Ashton married twice: to Eliza Ann Pugh in Hackney, London on 1 August 1876, by whom he had four sons and a daughter.
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Julian Ashton married again, on 8 September 1902 to Irene Morley.
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On Monday, 27 April 1942 Julian Ashton died at Bondi, Sydney, aged 91, after a long illness.
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Julian Ashton married Blanche Brooke Coppin, a daughter of George Coppin, in Melbourne on 23 October 1883.
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Julian Ashton was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1930.