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Rupert Bunny – Virtual Tour

Rupert Bunny - Virtual Tour

Rupert Bunny – Virtual Tour

Rupert Bunny (1864 – 1947) was an Australian painter, who was a magnificent colorist and erudite painter of classic themes and could masterfully handle large-scale composition. 

His paintings were inspired by European masters and brought him success more significant than any other Australian artist working abroad.

Virtual Tour of Rupert Bunny

Bunny initially studied art in London, then he went to Paris to study and was a frequent visitor to the Étaples art colony. 

The Etaples art colony consisted of artists working in the Étaples area of northern France at the turn of the 20th century. Although broadly international, it was made up mainly of English-speakers from North America, Australasia, and the British Isles.

Bunny achieved success and critical acclaim as an expatriate in Paris in the 1800’s. He gained an honorable mention at the Paris Salon of 1890 and a bronze medal at the Paris Exposition Universelle in 1900.

The French state acquired 13 of his works for the Musée du Luxembourg and regional collections. Rupert Bunny’s success during the decades he spent in Paris saw his work exhibited throughout Europe and collected by many museums.

He also led a cosmopolitan life with acquaintances amongst the leading celebrates of the time, such as Nellie Melba, Auguste Rodin, and Sarah Bernhardt.

In 1902, he married Jeanne Heloise Morel, a former art student, and model, who frequently appeared in his paintings. 

After traveling back and forth between Australia and France on numerous occasions, after his wife died in 1933, he returned permanently to Australia.

Rupert Charles Wulsten Bunny

  • Name:                       Rupert Charles Wulsten Bunny
  • Born:                        1864 – Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
  • Died:                         25 May 1947 (aged 82) – Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Pastorale, 1893

Rupert Bunny - Virtual Tour

Summer Time, 1907

Rupert Bunny - Virtual Tour

Endormies, 1904

Rupert Bunny - Virtual Tour

A Summer Morning, 1907

Rupert Bunny - Virtual Tour

La Fontaine, 1929

Rupert Bunny - Virtual Tour

 Tour of Artists

Rupert Bunny: Artist in Paris

Rupert Bunny – Australian artist with a French connection

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“Art is an illusion of spontaneity.”
– Japanese Proverb

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Photo Credit: Rupert Bunny [Public domain or Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

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