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Latitude
-45.874167
Longitude
170.503611
Start Date
1880-01-01
End Date
1977-01-01

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ID
tb91e4

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Birth Place
Dunedin, New Zealand
Biography
painter and art teacher, Melbourne. The Fancy Dress 1909, oil on canvas in Sotheby’s Fine Australian Paintings 22-23 April 1996, cat.294, is a portrait of Janet Agnes Cumbrae Stewart modelling an 'Arts Ball’ gown for the Sunday afternoon class of the National Gallery of Victoria [NGV] Art School. Formerly in the Baldwin Spencer collection, shown Fine Art Society’s Galleries, Melbourne, May 1919 (ill. fig.12). The Portfolio by C. Wheeler, exhibited in 1909 Victorian Artists’ Society and 'a work recommended for purchase by the Felton Trustees [NGV], was a great thing in color, manipulation and design. The proper place for a work of this kind should be a public gallery; and it is a pity that the Felton commissioners’ choice was not ratified’: [Anon], 'The Art of the Year’, Lone Hand 1 April 1910, p.672. The Portfolio was in fact acquired by the [National] Art Gallery of New South Wales, while the National Gallery of Victoria puchased The Poem . This artist’s biography is a stub. You can help DAAO by expanding it. Writers: Staff Writer Date written: 1999 Last updated: 2011
Born
b. 4 January 1880
Summary
painter and art teacher, Melbourne. His artwork 'The Fancy Dress' 1909 was shown in the Fine Art Society's Galleries, Melbourne. Another artwork of his is 'The Portfolio' exhibited in 1909. Uncle of New Zealand landscape painter Colin Wheeler.
Gender
Male
Died
26-Oct-77
Age at death
97