Rupert Bunny

Rupert Bunny
Self-portrait, 1895
Born
Rupert Charles Wulsten Bunny

(1864-09-29)29 September 1864
Melbourne, Australia
Died25 May 1947(1947-05-25) (aged 82)
Melbourne, Australia
EducationNational Gallery of Victoria Art School (1881–1883),
St John's Wood Art School (1884),
Studies under Jean-Paul Laurens, Paris (1886–1888)
Known forPainting
SpouseJeanne Morel

Rupert Charles Wulsten Bunny (29 September 1864 – 25 May 1947) was an Australian painter.[1] Born and raised in Melbourne, Victoria, he achieved success and critical acclaim as an expatriate in fin-de-siècle Paris.[2] He gained an honourable mention at the Paris Salon of 1890 with his painting Tritons and a bronze medal at the Paris Exposition Universelle in 1900 with his Burial of St Catherine of Alexandria.[3] The French state acquired 13 of his works for the Musée du Luxembourg and regional collections.[4] He was a "sumptuous colourist and splendidly erudite painter of ideal themes, and the creator of the most ambitious Salon paintings produced by an Australian."[5]

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  5. ^ Deborah Edwards, "Rupert Bunny – An Exotic in the History of Australian Art" in Look magazine (Art Gallery Society of New South Wales), November 2009, pp. 28–32