Rupert Bunny

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Rupert Charles Wulsten Bunny (1864–1947) was an Australian painter, born in St Kilda, Victoria. He travelled to England in 1884 and studied at Calderon's Art School in London. After 18 months he went to Paris to study at the atelier of Jean-Paul Laurens. He married a French woman in 1902. He lived in France until 1911 when he returned to Australia for a visit. For a number of years he travelled back and forth between Australia and France. After his wife died in 1933, he returned permanently to Australia and settled in South Yarra, Victoria.