Charles Brint ( Eng. Charles David Jones Bryant ; 1883 - 1937 ) - an Australian artist, wrote oil mainly on marine topics [1] .
| Bright Charles | |
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| Date of Birth | May 11, 1883 |
| Place of Birth | |
| Date of death | January 22, 1937 (53 years old) |
| Place of death | |
| Citizenship |  Australia |
| Genre | marine painter |
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Biography
Born May 11, 1883 in the town of Enmour, a suburb of Sydney ; was the fifth son of John Ambrose Bright and his wife Carolina, nee Lydon.
He received his initial education at Sydney Grammar School and at the same time studied the cello . After graduation, he got a position at Bank of New South Wales .
He studied painting in Sydney under the direction of William Lister and for several years was an exhibitor at the Royal Art Society of New South Wales . In 1908, Bright went to London , where he studied with John Hassall and Albert Julius Olsson. He exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts and the Paris Salon , where he received an honorary mention for his work "Morning Mists" in 1913, and with many well-known societies. After the outbreak of World War I, Charles Bright was appointed in 1917 as the official Australian martial artist on the Western Front ; created many paintings for the Australian government, many of which are currently in the Australian War Memorial in Canberra .
In 1922 he returned to Australia, and in 1923 he was sent to the mandated territories of New Guinea to paint scenes of the occupation of this territory by the Australians. In 1925, he painted a picture of the American Navy, which Sydney citizens donated to the United States government. Currently, this picture is in the Washington Capitol . Then the artist returned to England, and only ten years later he again visited Australia, where at the end of 1936 he held a successful personal exhibition in Sydney , followed by another in Melbourne .
For his services, Brint was a member of various art societies, the president of London Sketch Club . The works of the Australian artist are presented in galleries in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and other cities, as well as in the Australian War Memorial in Canberra and the Imperial War Museum in London.
He died on January 22, 1937 in Manly , a suburb of Sydney, and was buried in the church of England cemetery . He was not married.