Albert J. Hanson

Albert J. Hanson (1866-1914) was an Australian artist.

Hanson was born in Sydney and studied at the Royal Art Society's school and in 1889 went to New Zealand. He founded an art school at Dunedin but returned to Sydney after a short stay. In 1892 "The Low Lispings of the Silvery Waves", a water colour, was purchased by the Sydney gallery, and in the same year Hanson went to London. He was elected a member of the Royal Society of British Artists and in 1893 his "On the New South Wales Coast near Sydney" was on the line at the Royal Academy.

Hanson returned to Sydney in 1896, and in 1898 his "Pacific Beaches", an oil, was purchased for the National Gallery of Australia. In 1905 Hanson was the winner of the Wynne Prize. He died in 1914. He was an able landscape painter in both oil and water-colour and is represented in the Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane, Geelong, Wellington, Auckland, Dunedin, and Christchurch galleries.

References

*Dictionary of Australian Biography|First=Albert J.|Last=Hanson|Link=http://gutenberg.net.au/dictbiog/0-dict-biogHa-He.html#hanson1

External links

* [http://www.artnet.com/artist/671918/albert-j-hanson.html Albert J. Hanson] at artnet — includes photos of three of his paintings