J. W. R. Linton

James Walter Robert Linton (1869–1947) was an influential West Australian artist and teacher.[1][2][3]

His father was the artist Sir James Linton. James W. R. Linton emigrated to Australia in 1896 to look after his family's gold mining interests in Kalgoorlie after studying in England.

He established the Linton Art School in Perth in 1899 and became an art instructor at Perth Technical School until he retired in 1931. He was also vice-president of the West Australian Art Society and a trustee of the Public Museum and Art Gallery of Western Australia.

On 26 April 1902 James W. R. Linton married Charlotte Barrow in Perth; she was a granddaughter of Major-General Joseph Lyon Barrow.[4][5] James and Charlotte's son J.A.B. (Jamie) Linton became a silversmith after training from his father and became one of Australia's best-known metalworkers by the late 1940s.[6][7][8]

Notes
  1. Biography – James Walter Robert Linton – Australia Dictiobnary of Biography
  2. "GFL Online". Artists. Archived from the original on 17 November 2009. Retrieved 2 January 2010.
  3. Erickson, Dorothy (2010). "Chapter 8. James Walter Robert Linton". Gold and Silversmithing in Western Australia. UWA Publishing. pp. 183–235.
  4. Charlotte Bates Barrow, Descendants of Simon Barrow, Fifth Generation
  5. Major-Gen. Joseph Lyon Barrow (1812–1890) Major-Gen. J. L. Barrow was the father of General Sir Edmund George Barrow. J. L. Barrow was also an uncle of General Sir George de Symons Barrow.
  6. "Spoon, gumnut et al". Powerhouse Museum.
  7. James Alexander Barrow Linton, biography, Design and Art Australia Online
  8. "James Alexander Barrow Linton (1904–1980), Descendants of Simon Barrow, Sixth Generation". Archived from the original on 10 September 2014. Retrieved 9 September 2014.

Further reading
  • Linton, James W. R. (James Walter Robert), 1869–1947. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Western Australian Art Gallery, June 1977, and later at various country centres. Perth, W.A. Western Australian Art Gallery. "3–30 June 1977."

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