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Mortimer
Luddington Menpes (1855-1938)
Mortimer
Luddington Menpes (1855-1938) |
Australian-born artist Mortimer Luddington Menpes (1855-1938) completed his art training in London in 1880. He first gained recognition as a student and follower of 'The Master', James McNeill Whistler, and later became one of the most popular and widely exhibited artists of his generation. Menpes was a prodigious traveller and raconteur, an innovative and entrepreneurial printmaker and print publisher, a biographer, crack-shot, wrestler, prize fowl-raiser and lover of all things Japanese. In 1911 he donated 38 works to the people of Australia. Now housed at the National Library, each painting is a copy by Menpes of a work by a 'Great Master'. For the first time in over 50 years, his Mona Lisa and copies of works by Rembrandt, Gainsborough, Bellini, Van Dyck, Rubens, Reynolds and Velasquez will be on display.
View NLA News article 'The Great Masters, by Mortimer Menpes' by Tim Fisher, Exhibition Curator
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Mortimer
Luddington Menpes
Mortimer
Luddington Menpes (1855-1938) |