Monday, June 20, 2011

William Beckworth McInnes - Bathers [1916]

William Beckworth McInnes (St Kilda, Melbourne, May 18, 1889 - Melbourne, November 9, 1939) was an Australian portrait painter. McInnes had suffered from an imperfect heart all his life, his general health became affected and in July 1939 he resigned his position as master of the the National Gallery of Victoria School of Painting. He married Violet Muriel Musgrave in 1915, a capable flower painter, who survived him with four sons and two daughters.

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