Herbert C. Rose (1890 – January 1937), an Australian painter and etcher, was born at

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, the son of George Rose, (1861–1942), an Australian photographer. He and his brothers Walter and WilliamRose, George (1861-1942)
brief biography of George Rose, Libraries Australia. Accessed 6 November 2020. assisted in his father's photographic business, and Herbert Rose later studied art at the

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School from 1914 to 1918 and with the

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, a successor to the

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.Herbert Rose – Artist of Distinction
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'', 27 May 1952. Accessed 6 November 2020. He travelled to Europe, North Africa and Asia, and, according to an art critic for '' The Argus'', he "excelled in painting eastern crowds and architecture", was "a capable painter in both oils and water-colours, and also did interesting work in etching".''The Argus'' (Melbourne), 23 January 1937, cited in ] He exhibited at the

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and elsewhere in Europe and the United States, and staged one-man shows in Australia. His work is represented in Melbourne's and other Australian galleries. Art critic Harold Brocklebank Herbert (1891–1945) described his painting of sunlight in the Sedon Galleries exhibition catalogue (1937): "His sunlight is warm and glows with that 'inner glow"’ that is the despair of so many painters". Rose died at

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around the middle of January 1937. ” Reviewing a posthumous 1952 exhibition of his oil paintings, drawings and etchings at the Sedon Galleries in Melbourne, the art critic for the Australian newspaper ''

'', wrote that Rose had been "an extremely competent academic draftsman“ with an ability to skilfully suggest light and incisively render architectural detail.

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Herbert Rose
at McClelland Gallery & Sculpture Park {{DEFAULTSORT:Rose, Herbert 1890 births 1937 deaths Artists from Melbourne 20th-century Australian painters 20th-century Australian male artists Australian male painters People from Windsor, Victoria National Gallery of Victoria Art School alumni