John Longstaff

John Longstaff
Portrait of Longstaff by George Coates, 1918, National Library of Australia
Born
John Campbell Longstaff

(1861-03-10)10 March 1861
Clunes, Victoria, Australia
Died1 October 1941(1941-10-01) (aged 80)
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
NationalityAustralian
Known forPainting

Sir John Campbell Longstaff (10 March 1861 – 1 October 1941) was an Australian painter, war artist and a five-time winner of the Archibald Prize for portraiture. Longstaff was one of the most prolific portraitists of the Edwardian period, painting many high society figures in both Australia and Britain.[1]

His cousin Will Longstaff was also a painter and war artist.

  1. ^ Splatt, William; Burton, Barbara (1977). A Treasury of Australian Landscape Painting. Rigby. p. 35.