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First war artist appointed in the Second World War , he served in New Guinea and North Africa. He was also a war artist in the Korean War.

He won Australia's most prestigious portrait prize, the Archibald Prize five times, for these works in the following years:

  • 1951 - Laurie Thomas

  • 1953 - Sir Henry Simpson Newland, CBE, DSO, MS, FRCS

  • 1954 - Rt Hon R G Menzies, PC, CH, QC, MP

  • 1955 - Robert Campbell Esq

  • 1957 - Self Portrait


He painted a portrait of Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser which is hanging in the New Parliament House in Canberra


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