An Australian Artist.
Mr. John Longstaff, the artist who has been commissioned so largely by Royalty lately, is a native of Victoria, Australia, and is not only immeasurably the strongest of all colonial figure painters, but can claim his right to a place among the world’s great artist. Dapper as a London shopwalker to the casual ob-
server, his appearance suggests the drapers’ assistant more than the artist, yet, as shown by his work, he is a deep thinker, and one of the world’s advanced dreamers. He is stoutlooking, big and bluff, a man who is a man, and would as soon hobnob with a sweep in his working clothes as with the King of England.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXIX, Issue VIII, 23 August 1902, Page 450
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116An Australian Artist. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXIX, Issue VIII, 23 August 1902, Page 450
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