Record ID:
35191288 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
Heading:
Birth:
  • 18990924
  • Newcastle, New South Wales
Death:
  • 19700513
  • Wangi, New South Wales
Associated with:
  • London, England New South Wales
Occupations:
  • painter portraitist war artist
Notes:
  • Born 1899 at Newcastle, New South Wales; moved to Sydney to work 1923; attended Julian Ashton's Art School; sailed to London 1929 and enrolled at Slade School of Fine Art; won many prizes; returned to Sydney 1939l; became a war artist 1942; knighted in 1966; died May 1970 at Wangi, New South Wales.
  • Australian Dictionary of Biography WWW site, 12 June 2014 http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/dobell-sir-william-10025
Local system number:
  • (VSL)1595035
  • 000000192225
  • abv02147879
Cataloguing source:
  • VSL eng rda VSL
Authentication code:
  • anuc