Joshua Smith (1905 - 1995)

Born 12 Mar 1905 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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Biography

Joshua Smith (12 March 1905 – 22 July 1995) was an Australian artist who won the Archibald Prize in 1944 with his portrait of Hon Sol Rosevear, MHR, Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives, but is better known as the subject of the previous year's controversial Archibald Prize win, Mr Joshua Smith by artist William Dobell.

Although the portrait of him was very popular, with more than 154,000 visitors, a court case relating to the portrait in 1943 damaged his career, as well as Dobell's. Garfield Barwick appeared for the plaintiff and, although the claim was dismissed, it made Barwick's reputation as a rising star of the legal fraternity.

People – LifeTree

• Hector Macdonald Laws Waller DSO & Bar (1900 - 1942)
  AWM ART27505 . 1957 by Joshua Smith.

• Royal Australian Navy - Ship Tree

Sources

• [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Smith_(artist)