Edmund Arthur Harvey

Edmund Arthur Harvey, also known as E.A. Harvey or Harvey was a Britishborn Australian artist. Known for his portraits and landscape art, he also taught painting, most notably at the National Art School in Sydney, Australia. In a career spanning 67 years, Harveys works were shown in numerous exhibitions, and made among others, the collections of the Art Gallery of New South Wales and the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery.

Edmund Arthur Harvey was born in NewcastleuponTyne, United Kingdom, onFebruary 1907, son of Arthur James Harvey and Margaret Harvey ne Nicholson. His only sibling, younger brother Wilfred, died in infancy. Harvey migrated with his parents to Australia in 1909, but was sent back to Europe for studies at the age of eighteen. His parents returned to England for the duration of World War I, as his father was an engineer and worked in Southampton in a naval wartime position. They returned to Australia in about 1918, after the war.

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