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Lloyd Rees

Lloyd Rees, Australian painter (died 1988)

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Born
March 17, 1895
Died
December 2, 1988
Zodiac sign
Pisces
Birth year
1895

About Lloyd Rees

Lloyd Frederic Rees was an Australian landscape painter who twice won the Wynne Prize for his landscape paintings. Lloyd Frederic Rees (17 March 1895 – 2 December 1988) was an Australian landscape painter who twice won the Wynne Prize for his landscape paintings. Friend and Northwood resident William Pidgeon painted Lloyd Rees portrait which won the 1968 Archibald Prize. Rees first travelled to Europe in the 1920s (to meet with his then fiancée Daphne Mayo) and made sketches, including many of Paris, which were left accidentally on a bus in London at that time. Rees won the Wynne Prize in 1950 and 1982.

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Lloyd Rees timeline

  1. Lloyd Frederic Rees (17 March 1895 – 2 December 1988) was an Australian landscape painter who twice won the Wynne Prize for his landscape paintings.
  2. Rees won the Wynne Prize in 1950 and 1982.
  3. Friend and Northwood resident William Pidgeon painted Lloyd Rees portrait which won the 1968 Archibald Prize.

The world when Lloyd Rees was born

Lloyd Rees was born in 1895. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Culture in 1895

  • Top movieWorkers Leaving the Lumière Factory (first public film)

Headlines and milestones

  • Top headlineCuban War of Independence begins
  • Technology milestoneLumière brothers hold first public film screening
  • World population~1.55B

United States snapshot

  • U.S. leaderGrover Cleveland
  • U.S. population68.0M

1895 versus 2026

These figures put everyday life in Lloyd Rees's birth year beside the site's latest United States snapshot.

Measure18952026
Population68.0M341 million

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