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Rupert Charles Wulsten Bunny

Rupert Charles Wulsten Bunny (1864 - 1947) was active/lived in Australia, France.  Rupert Bunny is known for Portrait, female figure and landscape painting.

Rupert Charles Wulsten Bunny, artist, was born on 29 September 1864 at St Kilda, Melbourne, third son of Brice Frederick Bunny, barrister, and his wife Marie Hedwig Dorothea, née Wulsten.  Educated at the Alma Road Grammar School, St Kilda, The Hutchins School, Hobart, and in Germany and Switzerland, in 1881 he enrolled at the University of Melbourne to study civil engineering.

Abandoning his studies in the hope of becoming an actor, but frustrated by family opposition, he eventually joined the National Gallery schools under O. R. Campbell and G. F. Folingsby; his fellow students included Frederick McCubbin, E. Phillips Fox and Louis Abrahams.  In 1884 Bunny went to London and enrolled at P. H. Calderon's art school in St John's Wood. Two years later he left for Paris to study under Jean-Paul Laurens.
Bunny exhibited at the Salon de la Société des Artistes Français* (Old Salon) from 1888, becoming the first Australian painter to receive a mention honorable for his   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 5260 characters.]  Artist bio

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