Harold Septimus Power - Artist Info

About Harold Septimus Power

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Septimus Power, Harold Septimus
  • Biography

    Harold Power received his first training as an artist in Melbourne, Australia and working with Hans Heysen in Adelaide. He then studied at Julien's Academy in Paris under Jean Paul Laurens who had also taught Rupert Bunny.

    However it was in England that Power's skills were first widely recognized. Settling in London he was soon in demand as a society portraitist as well as for animal painting and landscape and he exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy.

    In 1915 he was appointed an Australian Official War Artist on the Western Front whilst George Lambert served in Palestine and Egypt. From 1921 he divided his time between England and Australia until 1940 when he returned permanently to Melbourne.

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