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Charles Meere (1890-1961)

Charles Meere was born in London and studied at the West Ham Technical School and the Royal College of Art, London, where he gained a diploma in mural painting and design. He then undertook a brief period of study at Colarossi's in Paris. He exhibited at the Royal Academy and in a number of English cities before migrating to Sydney in the late 1930s.

In Sydney, Meere worked as a freelance artist before joining the Sydney Morning Herald in the early 1940s, where his formal artistic style was quite successful. In 1938, when the Art Gallery of New South Wales established the Sulman Prize for murals and figure compositions, one of the first awards went to Meere's painting of the classical goddess, Atlanta. Meere also won the Wynne Prize in 1951.

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