1871 - 1921 (49 years)
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Name |
Edward Cairns Officer |
Birth |
19 Sep 1871 |
Murray Downs Station, New South Wales, Australia |
Gender |
Male |
Death |
7 Jul 1921 |
Macedon |
- He died, without issue, from inflammation of the brain of a week's duration, on 7 July 1921 at Macedon and was buried there.
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Person ID |
I76948 |
My Genealogy |
Last Modified |
1 May 2014 |
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Notes |
- Edward Cairns Officer (1871-1921), artist, was born on 19 September 1871 at Murray Downs station, New South Wales (near Swan Hill, Victoria), son of Suetonius Henry Officer and his wife Mary Lillias Rigg, daughter of Rev. Dr Adam Cairns, and grandson of Sir Robert Officer. He was educated at Toorak College, Melbourne. Frederick McCubbin, visiting art master at the college, encouraged Officer to pursue art as a career. He attended the National Gallery schools, Melbourne, in 1893-94 and concurrently was one of the few male pupils at E. Phillips Fox's Melbourne School of Art. A lasting debt to Fox is visible in Officer's infusion of emotive colour values into the sometimes bland formulae of the nationalist landscape.
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