Albert J. Hanson was an Australia

Australia

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n artist, winner of the 1905 Wynne Prize

Wynne Prize

The Wynne Prize is an Australian landscape painting or figure sculpture art prize. One of Australia's longest running art prizes, it was established in 1897 from the bequest of Richard Wynne...

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Hanson was born in Sydney

Sydney

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 and studied at the Royal Art Society's school. In 1889 Hanson went to New Zealand

New Zealand

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 and founded an art school at Dunedin

Dunedin

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 but returned to Sydney after a short stay. In 1892 The Low Lispings of the Silvery Waves, a water colour, was purchased by the Sydney gallery, and later that year Hanson went to London

London

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. He was elected a member of the Royal Society of British Artists

Royal Society of British Artists

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 and in 1893 his On the New South Wales Coast near Sydney was on the line at the Royal Academy

Royal Academy

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Hanson returned to Sydney in 1896, and in 1898 his Pacific Beaches, an oil, was purchased for the National Gallery of Australia

National Gallery of Australia

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. In 1905 Hanson's watercolour, The Blue Noon, was the winner of the Wynne Prize

Wynne Prize

The Wynne Prize is an Australian landscape painting or figure sculpture art prize. One of Australia's longest running art prizes, it was established in 1897 from the bequest of Richard Wynne...

. Hanson was an able landscape painter in both oil and water-colour and is represented in the Sydney, Adelaide

Adelaide

Adelaide is the capital city of South Australia and the fifth-largest city in Australia. Adelaide has an estimated population of more than 1.2 million...

, Brisbane

Brisbane

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, Geelong

Geelong, Victoria

Geelong is a port city located on Corio Bay and the Barwon River, in the state of Victoria, Australia, south-west of the state capital; Melbourne. It is the second most populated city in Victoria and the fifth most populated non-capital city in Australia...

, Wellington

Wellington

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, Auckland

Auckland

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, Dunedin, and Christchurch

Christchurch

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External links

• Albert J. Hanson at artnet — includes photos of two of his paintings