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Duncan Max Meldrum
1875-1955
Duncan Max Meldrum was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1875. He emigrated with his family to Australia in 1889, where he studied art in Melbourne. Having won a scholarship, he travelled to Europe where he studied and exhibited for a further fourteen years.
Duncan Max Meldrum was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1875. He emigrated with his family to Australia in 1889, where he studied art in Melbourne. Having won a scholarship, he travelled to Europe where he studied and exhibited for a further fourteen years.
Meldrum returned to Australia in 1912. He ran the Meldrum School of painting between 1916 and 1926. He was commissioned to complete a portrait of a Victoria Cross recipient following the First World War.
Meldrum died in Melbourne in 1955.
Sources
Joyce McGrath, Bernard Smith ’Meldrum, Duncan Max‘ (1875—1955) Australian Dictionary of Biography, Online Edition, Copyright 2006, updated continuously
Archives New Zealand Documentation, Series 898, National Collection of War Art
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