Arthur Burgess
(1879 – 1957)
Arthur Burgess was born in NSW. He studied art in Sydney and then moved to England in 1901 to further his art studies. He exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy, London and in Paris Salons from 1904 and worked as an illustrator for The Graphic and the Illustrated London News.
In 1913 Burgess was commissioned to paint the Australian Fleet entering Sydney Harbour for the Art Gallery of NSW, where his work is now represented.
Burgess was appointed the official naval artist for the Commonwealth of Australia in 1918 and went on to become the art editor of Brassey's Naval and Shipping Annual from 1922 to 1930.
Burgess specialised in maritime art, both during peacetime and war, and is noted for his paintings of naval and commercial shipping ranging from battleships at sea through to barges on the Thames.
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