Arthur d'Auvergne Boxall b. 1895 Port Elliot, SA

Also known as d'Auvergne Boxall
  • Artist (Painter)
South Australian born painter and teacher, active during the interwar period. Studied at the Slade art school in London and later lived and worked in Sydney.
Talk | Version history | Updated Oct. 19, 2011 | Created Jan. 1, 2009
Name
Arthur d'Auvergne Boxall
Also known as d'Auvergne Boxall
Birth date
19 June 1895
Birth place
Port Elliot, SA
Death date
7 January 1944
Death place
Rose Park, SA
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Artist (Painter)
Residence
  • 1895 ( Port Elliot, SA)
  • 1930 Sydney, NSW
  • 1940 Rose Park, Adelaide, SA
  • 1926 London, UK
Other Occupation
  • Architect
Active Period
  • 1920
Languages
  • English
Training
  • Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK
  • Adelaide School of Art, Adelaide, SA
Is Indigenous
No

South Australian born artist who was active during the interwar years. After a successful early career in Adelaide, Boxall travelled to London in 1926 and studied under Henry Tonks and Wilson Steer at the Slade School of Fine Art. The artist returned to Australia in 1930 after painting in England, Egypt and Fiji. Upon his return to Australia, Boxall lived in Sydney and taught art at the East Sydney Technical College. Suffering from tuberculosis (TB) he resigned from his teaching post in 1940 and later returned to South Australia. He died from TB at his father’s home on 7 January 1944.

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Writers:
Clifford-Smith, Silas
Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2011
associate of
John William Ashton
1881
Artist (Printmaker), Artist (Painter)
associate of
Horace Trenerry
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
child of
George Albert Boxall
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
child of
nee Pratt Ellen Boxall
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
Collections
Citations:
  • (11 January 1944), "St. Mark's, Venice", drawn by D'Auvergne Boxall, (Place: Bulletin, National Gallery of South Australia, SA)
  • Thompson, Judith, (1979), 'Boxall, Arthur d'Auvergne (1895-1944)', Australian Dictionary of Biography (Volume 7), (Place: Melbourne University Press, VIC)
  • Campbell, Jean, (1983), Australian Watercolour Painters 1780-1980, (Place: Rigby [Australia])