Lloyd Frederic Rees (1895 - 1988)

Born 17 Mar 1895 in Brisbane, Queensland Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Eva Marjorie (Pollard) Rees — married 28 Feb 1931 in Pennant Hills, New South Wales, Australia

Died 2 Dec 1988 at age 93 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

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Biography

Lloyd Rees was born in the Colony of Queensland (1859-1900)

Lloyd Rees is Notable.

Lloyd Rees was born in 1895,^[1] the seventh of eight children of Owen Rees and his wife Angèle Burguez. Lloyd Rees first travelled to Europe in the 1920s to meet with his then fiancée the renowned sculptor Daphne Mayo. They had met when both were art students in Brisbane.

However the relationship did not last and he would go on to marry Dulcie Metcalf in 1926 however In 1927 Dulcie died in childbirth.

Lloyd Rees married again in 1931,^[2] this time to Marjory Pollard, mother of his son Alan. Marjory died in April 1988 and Lloyd Frederic Rees passed away on the 2nd of December of the same year.

From the 1940s until the 1960s Lloyd Rees was part of the Northwood group, along with Roland Wakelin, George Feather Lawrence, John Santry, Douglas Dundas, Wilmotte Williams and Marie Santry. These artists had no manifesto but were conservative, tending towards a neo-impressionist sinuous style of landscape painting. They were less fashionable than the Sydney abstract expressionism of the time or Melbourne postwar voices of disquiet such as Sidney Nolan.^[3]

Lloyd Frederic Rees AC CMG was a popular world renowned Australian landscape painter. He was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in 1978 and later Australia's highest civilian honour, the Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) in 1985. ^{[4] [5]}

Sources

1. ↑ QLD BDM Lloyd Frederic Rees Event date: 17/03/1895 Event type: Birth registration Registration details: 1895/C/10007 Mother: Angele Burgnez (sic) Father/parent: Edward Owen Rees
2. ↑ NSW BDM: Marriage: registration no. 1931/3335 - REES, LLOYD F. & POLLARD, EVA M. - district: HORNSBY
3. ↑ Lloyd Rees from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, first accessed online on the 7th of June, 2021 at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd_Rees
4. ↑ Winner: Archibald Prize 1968: William Pidgeon's Lloyd Rees oil on canvas/102 x 79 cm from the Art Gallery of New South Wales website. first accessed online on the 7th of June, 2021 at: https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/prizes/archibald/1968/19641/
5. ↑ Renée Free, Rees, Lloyd Frederic (1895–1988), Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/rees-lloyd-frederic-14413/text25492, published first in hardcopy 2012, accessed online 5 July 2021.

Further Reading

LLOYD REES - THE ART OF LIFE by VERONICA KOOYMAN

LLOYD REES Painting with Pencil 1930-36 an exhibition at the Museum of Sydney 12 December 2015-17 April 2016

The Lloyd Rees Lookout from Monuments Australia

Lloyd Rees from the INVALUABLE website

Mr Lloyd Frederic Rees from the The University of Sydney News, 2 July 1970

ON THE STREETS WHERE YOU LIVE: Lloyd Rees

DEATH OF MR L. F. REES, AC, CMG a speech in the Australian Parliament by the Honourable Mr HAWKE (Prime Minister) in HANSARD Tuesday, 28 February 1989