Global InformationWalter Armiger Bowring information
Walter Armiger Bowring | |
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 Bowring, c. 1920 | |
| Born | 11 March 1874 Auckland, New Zealand |
| Died | 3 November 1931 (aged 57) Sydney, Australia |
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| Spouse |
Violet Bowring (m. 1925) |
Walter Armiger Bowring (11 March 1874 – 3 November 1931) was a New Zealand portrait and landscape painter, illustrator, cartoonist and caricaturist, also successful in London and Australia.[1][2] He was an unofficial World War I artist and a collection of his early work is contained in the Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington. He entered 14 portraits in Sydney's Archibald Prize from 1925. His subjects included public figures, such as politicians, Governors-General, military men and academics: Richard John Seddon, William Ferguson Massey, Harold Beauchamp, William Rolleston, William Sefton Moorhouse, the Earl of Ranfurly, Lord Mountbatten, Viscount Hawkesbury, Lord Jellicoe, Bernard Freyberg, and a number of prominent women. A number of his World War I works are included in the National Collection of War Art in Archives New Zealand, a collection merged in the 1950s with works from World War II;[3] and three portraits are in the National Portrait Gallery of Australia.[4]
- ^ "Bowring, Walter Armiger 1874-1931". Alexander Turnbull Library. Archived from the original on 11 August 2019. Retrieved 21 August 2023.
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- ^ "W.A. Bowring". National Portrait Gallery of Australia. Retrieved 4 August 2023.