Julian Howard Ashton “Rose Bay Golf Course”

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Medium
Oil on Canvas

Dimensions
25.5 x 40cm

Year
1912

Description
Julian Howard Ashton (1877 –1964) was a British journalist, writer, artist and critic. Ashton was most notable for his short stories in The Bulletin, however due to success of this, he began selling his paintings at art galleries, and then began writing for British magazines such as Pall Mall Gazette and Chambers’s Journal. He also drew portraits for the Sydney Daily Telegraph, in his late teenage years/early adulthood. Born in Islington, London, England, Ashton only lived in London for a short period of his life before moving to Sydney.

Ashton had never worked as a full time artist; however despite this, he won the Sydney sesquicentenary prize for landscape drawings in 1938.