1. Rupert Charles Wulsten Bunny was an Australian painter.
28 Facts About Rupert Bunny
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Rupert Bunny gained an honourable mention at the Paris Salon of 1890 with his painting Tritons and a bronze medal at the Paris Exposition Universelle in 1900 with his Burial of St Catherine of Alexandria.
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Rupert Bunny had an older sister Alice, which was born in 1859.
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Rupert Bunny married Henry Leishman, and English immigrant, and settled with him in Queensland before moving to Albany, Western Australia in 1892, and died in Perth in 1951.
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Rupert Bunny returned to Australia trilingual, in English, French and German.
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In early 1881, Rupert Bunny was enrolled into the University of Melbourne, intending to study civil engineering.
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Rupert Bunny studied alongside artists such as Fred McCubbin, Aby Altson and John Longstaff.
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Rupert Bunny studied under Phillip Calderon at St Johns Wood Art School for 18 months.
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Rupert Bunny was well respected in Paris, where he remained until 1932.
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Rupert Bunny had a traditional and academic education in the arts under Calderon and Laurens.
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Rupert Bunny married Morel in 1902, and, in both style and sensibility, his works became distinctively more French.
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Towards the 1920s, Rupert Bunny revisited mythology as his subject, this time in a modernist style.
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Rupert Bunny's mother was a "talented" piano player, and friend of Clara Schumann and Bunny has been described as an "exceptional" piano player himself.
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Rupert Bunny produced works such as Nocturne [The Distant Song], The Sonata, and Moonlight Sonata, with obvious allusions to music.
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Rupert Bunny painted a portrait of Japanese actress Madame Sadayakko, titled Madame Sada Yakko as Kesa, which depicted the actress in character from Kesa, an adaptation of a Kabuki play entitled Endo Musha.
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In 1895, Rupert Bunny met his wife Jeanne Morel, a fellow art student, who he married in 1902, at age 38.
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For many years afterwards, Rupert Bunny travelled back and forth between Australia and France.
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Rupert Bunny lived on Toorak Road in South Yarra, Victoria.
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Rupert Bunny assimilated into the art scene in Melbourne easily, and continued to show his work.
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Rupert Bunny rejected Robert Menzies' invitation to join the Australian Academy of Art in 1939.
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Rupert Bunny died in a private hospital on 25 May 1947, at age 82.
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Rupert Bunny began exhibiting works in the Salon de la Societe des Artistes Francais in 1888.
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Rupert Bunny exhibited in the New Salon, the Old Salon and the Salon D'Automne.
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Rupert Bunny was the first Australian to receive an honourable mention in 1890 at the Salon de la Societe des Artistes Francais for the painting Tritons.
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Rupert Bunny exhibited works internationally, including in Australia, America and England.
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In 1894 Rupert Bunny became a member of the Royal Society of British Artists.
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Rupert Bunny was the first Australian artist to have works acquired by the French government.
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The National Gallery of Victoria held a retrospective exhibition of Rupert Bunny's works, curated by Mary Eagle, which was the first exhibition to honour a living artist in this way.