Julian rossi ashton biography

  • Julian Rossi Ashton CBE was an English-born Australian artist and teacher.
  • Julian Rossi Ashton (1851-1942), art teacher and artist, was born on 27 January 1851 at Addlestone, Surrey, England, elder son of a wealthy American.
  • Julian Rossi Ashton CBE (27 January 1851 – 27 April 1942) was an English-born Australian artist and teacher.

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    painter, illustrator, etcher, art teacher and author, was born in Addlestone, Surrey, England, on 27 January 1851, the first child of Henrietta, née Rossi (born in Florence, married in Italy and said to have been of the Italian nobility), and Thomas Briggs Ashton (1808-1866), a painter, wood engraver and dealer in artists’ supplies from Philadelphia, USA. Soon after Julian’s birth the family moved to Gulval, Penzance, where his two sisters and two brothers (including George Rossi , born 1857) were born. J.R.A.'s earliest known surviving work, House and Garden Pengarye 1863 (National Gallery of Australia [NGA]), was painted in Cornwall. Soon afterwards (c.1864) the family moved to Totnes, Devonshire, where Julian attended the local grammar school. When his father died in 1866 the family moved to London. From c.1866-73 he worked for the Great Eastern Railway Company, Stratford, then for Hart Son Peard and Co., church fitters, London. From 1868/69 to 1871 he studied art

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    Name
    Julian Rossi Ashton

    Also known as J. R. A.

    Gender
    Male
    Roles
    • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
    • Artist (Painter)
    Other Occupation
    • Gallery Owner (ANZSIC code: 4279) (Gallery Owner established the Fine Arts galleri in Bligh Street in 1911 with Harley Griffiths senior and Hardy Wilson)
    • Art teacher and founder of the Sydney [later Julian Ashton] Art School (ANZSIC code: 8212)
    • freelance illustrator (ANZSIC code: 6924)
    Birth date
    27 January 1851
    Birth place
    Addlestone, Surrey, England, UK, Addlestone, Surrey (Greater London), England, UK
    Birth note
    (Greater London)
    Death date
    27 April 1942
    Death place
    Bondi, Sydney, NSW
    Arrival
    • June 1878 (arrived Melbourne on board the 'Cuzco')
    Residence
    • c.1887 North Queensland
    • c.1887- Western Australia
    • c.1883 - c.1942 Sydney, NSW
    • June 1878 - 1883 Melbourne, Vic.
    • c.1868 - c.1877 London, England, UK
    • 1918 - 1942 Bondi, NSW
    Training
    • c.1874 l&

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      Julian Ashton

      Australian artist (1851–1942)

      For his son the English born Australian journalist, see Julian Howard Ashton.

      Julian Rossi AshtonCBE (27 January 1851 – 27 April 1942) was an English-born Australian artist and teacher. He 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.

      He was a principal organiser of the 1898 Exhibition of Australian Art in London, the first major exhibition of Australian art internationally.

      Biography

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      Ashton was born in Addlestone, Surrey, the son of American amateur painter[1] Thomas Briggs Ashton, and his wife Henrietta, daughter of Count Carlo Rossi,[2] a Sardinian diplomat[3] who married the soprano Henriette Sontag. The family moved to Penzance, Cornwall shortly after, and lived at Burley Grove, Gulval.[4] At

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