Title

Ashton, Will.

Author

Australian Prints.

Source

[Not applicable]

Publication date

2000

Type

Biography

Language

English

Country of context

Australia

Full text

Will Ashton

Born on 20 September 1881 in York, England, John William Ashton arrived in Adelaide in 1884. He studied with his father, James Ashton in Adelaide and later went to Europe and studied with Julius Olsson and Algernon Talmadge at St Ives, Cornwall and at the Academie Julien, Paris. On his return to Australia in he became a prolific painter of picturesque works. He died 1 September 1963. His etched work, about 25 in number, are mainly from the 1920s and of European and English subjects.

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