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Name
  
George Morison


Children
  
Margaret Pitt Morison

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Born
  
31 August 1861 (
1861-08-31
)

Died
  
September 4, 1946, South Yarra, Melbourne, Australia

George Pitt Morison (31 August 1861 – 4 September 1946) was an Australian painter and engraver noted particularly for his painting The Foundation of Perth 1829 which was commissioned as part of Western Australia's centenary celebrations, and presented to the Art Gallery of Western Australia in February 1929.

In 1890 he travelled to Europe to study at the Académie Julian in Paris and in the early 1930s worked as chief curator of art at the Western Australian Museum Art Gallery.

Morison was born on 31 August 1861 in Melbourne and died on 4 September 1946 in South Yarra, Victoria.

References

George Pitt Morison Wikipedia