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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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