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Harold Frederick Abbott (14 June 1906 – 8 June 1986) was an Australian portrait painter, an official war artist and an art teacher by profession.
Abbott was born in 1906 in the Sydney suburb of Strathfield, New South Wales. At the age of seventeen, he started studying part-time art at Sydney Art School. In 1931 he moved to London for two years to study at the Royal Academy, funded by the NSW Society of Artists Travelling Scholarship. In 1934–1940 he was a finalist in the Archibald Prize and in 1940 he won the Sulman Prize. In 1941 he enlisted in the AIF. In 1943 he was appointed a war artist in 2/9th Field Regiment with the rank of lieutenant.
For twenty years after the war, Abbott did little painting or exhibiting; he taught at the National Art School in Sydney, where he later became the head and State Supervisor of Art. Upon retirement in the late 1960s he returned to painting, but with a quite different style, and held 8 solo exhibitions.
Abbott died on 8 June 1986(1986-06-08) (aged 79) in Sydney. His work is held in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the Australian War Memorial, and in various regional art galleries.




Abbott's works in the Australian War Memorial Collection


Over 170 of Abbott's works are listed in the Australian War Memorial Collection. These include:

Sergeant Leslie Ralph McCole
Corporal William (old Bill) Green
Sergeant Arthur Carson




Finalist in the Archibald Prize


1934: Four works: Miss Ruth Waterhouse; Master Bruce Abbott; Rev. John Edwards, M.A. and J. Armstrong, Esq.
1935: Miss Susan Davies
1936: Three works: Miss Nancy Sinclair; The Hon. Mr Justice Boyce and Mrs Frank Hosking
1937: Self Portrait and runner up: Miss Jeanie Ranken
1938: Self Portrait
1939: Five works: Mrs C. de Burgh; Neil McNeill, Esq. [sic]; Robert Gillespie, Esq; Miss Margaret Murray and Mrs R. Abbott
1940: Dr W. Arundel Orchard
1943: Patient Awaiting Plastic Surgery
1945: Sgt. Reg Rattey
1946: Self-portrait
1950: George Lucas
1951: Jakovljevich Dushan




Works in the Art Gallery of NSW


recto: Old Italian verso: (seated female nude) (circa 1934)
Miss Jeanie Ranken (1937)
David (1950)




Finalist in the Sir John Sulman Prize


1940: Winner: Vaucluse Interior
1950: The Brothers Gamack




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