Benjamin Edwin Minns
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Benjamin Edwin Minns (17 November 1863 – 21 February 1937) was an Australian artist, recognised as one of Australia's foremost watercolourists.[1]
Minns was born in Dungog, New South Wales, Australia and had lessons in painting and drawing at Inverell, New South Wales. Intending to have a career in law, Minns went to Sydney and worked for the law firm Abbot & Allen. However, he met the artist Charles Conder with whom he shared a studio. Minns then studied under Lucien Henry at Sydney Technical College, also taking lessons from the plein air painter Julian Ashton.[1]
Minns obtained his first job at the Illustrated Sydney News with Conder's help; Minns also drew for the Sydney Mail and regularly contributed to The Bulletin. From 1895 to 1915 Minns worked in England, contributing to St Paul's Magazine, Punch, The Strand Magazine, the Bystander and other publications as well as sending drawings to The Bulletin. Minns was a founder in 1924 and inaugural president (until 1937) of the Australian Watercolour Institute.[1]
References
- ^ a b c Campbell, Jean (1986). "Benjamin Edwin Minns". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943. Retrieved 3 June 2012.
External links
- B. E. Minns at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- B. E. Minns at Library of Congress, with 0 library catalogue records
- 1863 births
- 1937 deaths
- Australian watercolourists
- 19th-century Australian painters
- 19th-century Australian male artists
- 20th-century Australian painters
- 20th-century Australian male artists
- Archibald Prize finalists
- Australian landscape painters
- Australian male painters
- Colony of New South Wales people
- Visual artists in early 20th-century Australia