Ernest William Buckmaster (1897 - 1968)

Born 3 Jul 1897 in Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia

Ancestors

Died 18 Oct 1968 at age 71 in Warrandyte, Victoria, Australia

Biography

Ernest Buckmaster was born in the Colony of Victoria (1851-1900)

Ernest Buckmaster is Notable.

1897 Ernest was born in Hawthorn, Victoria. He was the eldest of 5 children to Harry and Letitia^[1].

1932 He won the Archibald prize for his Portrait of Sir William Irvine^[2]

1936 He was a finalist in the Archibald Prize for his Self Portrait^[3]

He passed away on the 18th of October 1968 at his Warrandyte home and was buried in Lilydale Cemetery in Victoria Australia. Survived by his second wife Florence Botting, and by their three sons and two daughters,

Sources

1. ↑ Vic BDM, BUCKMASTER Ernt Birth ,Mother = Letitia Martha CHANDLER, Father = Hy Amos HAWTH 1897 19797/1897
2. ↑ Art Gallery of New South Wales, https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/prizes/archibald/1932/14953/
3. ↑ Art Gallery of New South Wales, https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/prizes/archibald/1936/17423/

• Wikipedia entry - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Buckmaster

• Joyce McGrath, Buckmaster, Ernest (1897–1968), Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/buckmaster-ernest-9616/text16955, published first in hardcopy 1993, accessed online 31 May 2021.