Luxembourg Gardens
Ambrose Patterson
Details
- Artist
- Ambrose Patterson
- Title
- Luxembourg Gardens
- Medium
- oil on panel
- Size
- 26.5 x 35 cm
- Details
signed lower right: A PATTERSON
Further Information
Ambrose McCarthy Patterson was born in Daylesford Victoria and attended the National Gallery of Victoria school as well as Tudor St George Tucker and Emanuel Philips Fox’s Melbourne Art School, before departing for Paris to further his studies. He received financial assistance from his relative Dame Nellie Melba to support him in Paris where he shared a studio with James MacDonald and Hugh Ramsey. He regularly exhibited at the Salon d’Automne, as well as showing at the New Salon, the Salon des Independents and the Royal Academy of Arts in London in 1904. He was awarded the American Art Association prize in 1903.
Patterson returned to Melbourne in 1910, receiving many portrait commissions before moving to America where he remained for the rest of his life, becoming an American citizen in 1928. He continued his career as a painter, print-maker and teacher, travelling to Europe in 1930 and Mexico in 1934 and Australia in 1951.
He is represented in many Australian institutions and was honoured with a retrospective exhibition in 1969.