Aileen Rose Dent (1890 – 30 March 1978) was an Australian artist known for her portraits, specifically her portrait of Australian aviator Jean Burns.

Biography

Dent was born in 1890 in

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, New South Wales. From 1909 to 1916 she was a student at the National Gallery Art School in

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. Dent exhibited regularly at the Atheneum Gallery and was a finalist in the

Archibald Prize The Archibald Prize is an Australian portraiture art prize for painting, generally seen as the most prestigious portrait prize in Australia. It was first awarded in 1921 after the receipt of a bequest from J. F. Archibald, J. F. Archib ...

many times. Her paintings were included in the exhibit ''Australian Women Artists, One Hundred Years 1840 - 1940''. The

National Gallery of Australia The National Gallery of Australia (NGA), formerly the Australian National Gallery, is the national art museum of Australia as well as one of the largest art museums in Australia, holding more than 166,000 works of art. Located in Canberra in th ...

owns Dent's portrait of Dame Elizabeth Couchman. Dent died in Wagga Wagga in 1978.

Works

The Charles Sturt University Art Collection holds the largest collection of her works, however her portraiture exists in other public and private collections. Works include: * Portrait of Jean Burns 1934 * Portrait of H.P. Zwar 1937 * Portrait of Mrs Ryland 1927 * Portrait of Magnus Lagerlof 1935 * Portrait of Dr. H. Friedman 1932 * Portrait of C. Rigby C.B.E. 1942 * Portrait of Miss Gillman-Jones 1928 * Portrait of the Hon.

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1934 * Portrait of Major General AC Short, CB, OBE 1954 * Portrait of Dr. Roland Wettenhall, M.B., B.S., F.R.A.P. 1952 * Portrait of Mr. Henry Searby, M.S. F.R.C.S., Q.H.S. 1953 * Portrait of Professor Boyce Gibson 1930, finalist,

, 1930 * Portrait of Professor HF Schraeder 1927 * Portrait of Albert Edward Swanson, Esq. 1925 * Portrait of Hon. RK Whately, MA, MLA 1955 * Portrait of Brin Newton John, Esq. M.A. 1956 * Portrait of Miss Joyce Raymond 1938 * Portrait of Sir John Jungwirth, Secretary to the Premier of Victoria 1958 * Portrait of Rev. J. Noble-MacKenzie 1940 * Portrait of Professor HC Summers 1943 * Portrait of Rev. Henry Evans 1945 * Portrait of Sgt. W. Geoffrey Smith 1943 * Portrait of Professor John Gillies 1940 * Portrait of C.N. McKenzie, Esq. 1939 * Portrait of Rev. A.J. Stewart 1944 * Portrait of Hon. Sirt Frederick W. Eggleston 1944 * Portrait of Sir Charles Lowe 1950 * Portrait of Dr J.M. Baldwin, astronomer 1941 * Portrait of The Right Rev. GA Wood, BA 1962 * Portrait of John Allan, Premier of Victoria 1928 *Portrait of Robert McLeish, President of the Green Room Club ca.1950

Exhibitions

* 1943, from 1 December; Inclusion in a group show of ninety-one paintings and etchings with

Arnold Shore Arnold Joseph Victor Shore (5 May 1897, Windsor, – 22 May 1963, Melbourne) was an Australian painter, teacher and critic. Biography Shore was the youngest of seven children of John Shore, a coachsmith, and his wife Harriett Sarah, née Mc ...

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, John Rowell, Jas. Quinn, John Farmer, Mary Hurry, Dora Serle, Margaret Pestell, Dora Wilson, Isabel Tweddle,

Allan Jordan Allan Holder Jordan (1898–1982) was an Australian painter, designer, printmaker and teacher. Early life Allan Jordon was born in 1898 in Elsternwick, Victoria, Elsternwick, the son of Sandhurst-born customs agent James Oliver Jordan and Maud ...

, Murray Griffin, Geo. Colville, and Victor Cog. Hawthorn Library.

References

External links

images of Aileen Dent's paintings
on Mutual Art 1890 births 1978 deaths 20th-century Australian women artists 20th-century Australian artists Archibald Prize finalists Artists from New South Wales National Gallery of Victoria Art School alumni {{australia-artist-stub