John Samuel Watkins
John Samuel Watkins
The Pyjama Girl
John Samuel Watkins (1866 – 1942)
pencil on paper
32 x 20cm, frame size: 44 x 31cm
initialled lower right
$450
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John Samuel Watkins was born in Wolverhampton, England, and studied at the South Kensington Art School in London. He arrived in Sydney in 1882 and undertook further studies at the Royal Art Society of New South Wales (RAS).
Watkins was a regular contributor to the RAS annual exhibitions up to the late 1930s. Most of his exhibits were oil portraits and figure studies in the academic style popular in France during the late 19th century.
For more than 40 years Watkins directed a school of painting and drawing located at Margaret Street, Sydney. His former students knew him affectionately as ‘Watty’. He was a trustee of the Art Gallery of New South Wales from 1932 to 1942.
Representative works are held at the Art Gallery of New South Wales and the Art Gallery of South Australia.