Ernest Buckmaster
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Ernest William Buckmaster (1897-1968) Australian artist born in Victoria who won the Archibald Prize in 1932 with a portrait of Sir William Irvine.
Buckmaster studied and later taught at the National Gallery School in Melbourne [1]. He became a painter of traditional portraits and landscapes with a substantial workrate.
His work has been widely popular in Australia and New Zealand, with public art galleries in Australia and New Zealand hold large collections of his work. Buckmaster disliked modern art, publicly denigrating it through letters to a newspaper.
Buckmaster was a Second World War official war artist for the Australian military's Military History Section [2]. Part of his duties took him to Singapore [3].
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