Derwent Lees
Painting, Visual Artist
1884 – 1931
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Who was Derwent Lees?
Derwent Lees was an Australian landscape painter.
Born Desmond Lees in Hobart, Australia, Lees taught drawing at the Slade School of Fine Art in London, England, and was a member of the New English Art Club from 1911.
He was a friend of Augustus John and James Dickson Innes, and spent the period from late 1910 to 1912 with them at a cottage called Nant Ddu in north Wales. In 1912 Innes and Lees went on another painting trip to Collioure in France.
His artistic career was curtailed by a mental health problem which saw him confined to an asylum from 1918 until his death in 1931.
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