The Edwardians: Secrets and Desires | George COATES | Arthur Walker and his brother Harold (The Walker brothers)

COATES, George

Australia 1869 – England 1930

England 1897, France 1898-1900, England from 1900 with visits to Europe (1910, 1913, 1930) and Australia (1921)

Arthur Walker and his brother Harold (The Walker brothers) c.1912

Painting

oil on canvas

158.6 (h) x 130.4 (w) cm

Gift of Mrs George Coates in 1934 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

VIEW: Article | REFERENCES

Dora Meeson Coates, George Coates: His art and his life, London: J.M. Dent, 1937
Anne Gray and Gavin Fry, Masterpieces of the Australian War Memorial, Adelaide: Rigby, 1982
Karen Quinlin, ‘George and Dora’, The World of Antiques and Art, December 1999–June 2000
Myra Scott and Michael Varcoe-Cocks, ‘The portrait of Arthur Walker and his brother Harold, (1912)’, Gallery, April/ May 2001.