George Alfred John Webb [1861-1949]

34.6 x 27.4cm

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Bio credit Wikipedia -: George Alfred John Webb (1861 – 16 August 1949) was an English painter who had a considerable career in Australia painting portraits of South Australian and Victorian public figures. In correspondence, he signed himself as "George A. J. Webb", but many of his paintings but not all have been signed simply "WEBB"

Webb studied painting in England and Europe before emigrating to Australia around 1890, but could have been as early as 1888. His older sister Frances "Fanny" Webb had married the painter Charles Rolando (1844-1893) around 1874, moving to Australia in 1885 and setting up a studio in Grey Street, East Melbourne.

Webb lived and worked first in Melbourne, painting landscapes around Fernshaw and Gippsland Lakes which Rolando also favoured and often took him there on excursions. Then 1890 and 1891 in Launceston, Tasmania, returned to Melbourne, where he married Christina Lake in 1892 and spent their honeymoon in Europe. When Rolando died in 1893 Webb took his place in Rolando's art classes for at least a year thereby collaborating with Jan Hendrik Scheltema.

In 1897 they moved to Adelaide, where he joined the South Australian Society of Arts soon after his arrival, and proved to be an active member, participating in most exhibitions and was for some years its vice president.

Around 1925 he returned to Adelaide, where his daughter, Clarice lived, & purchased a home at 3 Edwin Terrace, Gilberton. Charles Webb appears to have done little in the way of painting from that time. He died in a nursing home in Adelaide on 16 August 1949.