Aileen Dent
Born
Aileen Rose Dent

1890 (1890)
Deniliquin, New South Wales, Australia
Died1978 (aged 8788)
Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia
NationalityAustralian
Known forPainting

Aileen Rose Dent (1890 – 30 March 1978)[1] was an Australian artist known for her portraits, specifically her portrait of Australian aviator Jean Burns.[2]

Biography

Dent was born in 1890 in Deniliquin, New South Wales. From 1909 to 1916 she was a student at the National Gallery Art School in Melbourne.[2]

Dent exhibited regularly at the Atheneum Gallery[2] and was a finalist in the Archibald Prize many times. Her paintings were included in the exhibit Australian Women Artists, One Hundred Years 1840 - 1940.[2]

The National Gallery of Australia owns Dent's portrait of Dame Elizabeth Couchman.[3]

Dent died in Wagga Wagga in 1978.[4]

Works

The Charles Sturt University Art Collection holds the largest collection of her works, however her portraiture exists in other public and private collections. Works include:

  • Portrait of Jean Burns 1934
  • Portrait of H.P. Zwar 1937
  • Portrait of Mrs Ryland 1927
  • Portrait of Magnus Lagerlof 1935
  • Portrait of Dr. H. Friedman 1932
  • Portrait of C. Rigby C.B.E. 1942
  • Portrait of Miss Gillman-Jones 1928
  • Portrait of the Hon. King O'Malley 1934
  • Portrait of Major General AC Short, CB, OBE 1954
  • Portrait of Dr. Roland Wettenhall, M.B., B.S., F.R.A.P. 1952
  • Portrait of Mr. Henry Searby, M.S. F.R.C.S., Q.H.S. 1953
  • Portrait of Professor Boyce Gibson 1930, finalist, Archibald Prize, 1930[5]
  • Portrait of Professor HF Schraeder 1927
  • Portrait of Albert Edward Swanson, Esq. 1925
  • Portrait of Hon. RK Whately, MA, MLA 1955
  • Portrait of Brin Newton John, Esq. M.A. 1956
  • Portrait of Miss Joyce Raymond 1938
  • Portrait of Sir John Jungwirth, Secretary to the Premier of Victoria 1958
  • Portrait of Rev. J. Noble-MacKenzie 1940
  • Portrait of Professor HC Summers 1943
  • Portrait of Rev. Henry Evans 1945
  • Portrait of Sgt. W. Geoffrey Smith 1943
  • Portrait of Professor John Gillies 1940
  • Portrait of C.N. McKenzie, Esq. 1939
  • Portrait of Rev. A.J. Stewart 1944
  • Portrait of Hon. Sirt Frederick W. Eggleston 1944
  • Portrait of Sir Charles Lowe 1950
  • Portrait of Dr J.M. Baldwin, astronomer 1941
  • Portrait of The Right Rev. GA Wood, BA 1962
  • Portrait of John Allan, Premier of Victoria 1928[6]
  • Portrait of Robert McLeish, President of the Green Room Club ca.1950

Exhibitions

References

  1. NSW Births Deaths and Marriages record: 8101/1978 Dent, Aileen Rose
  2. 1 2 3 4 Scherer, Rodney. "Aileen Rose Dent b. 1890". Design & Art Australia Online (DAAO). Retrieved 2 April 2018.
  3. "Aileen Dent". National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 2 April 2018.
  4. "Family Notices - Deaths". The Sydney Morning Herald. 1 April 1978.
  5. "Archibald Prize finalists 1930". Art Gallery, NSW. Retrieved 29 September 2020.
  6. Gallagher, Robin. "Parliament of Victoria - John Allan portrait". www.parliament.vic.gov.au.
  7. "Art exhibition at Hawthorn". The Age. 2 December 1943. p. 4.
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