Famous People with Name Mcinnes

William Beckwith McInnes            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

William Beckwith McInnes: was a famous Australian portrait painter, winner of the Archibald Prize seven times for his traditional style paintings.Soon afterwards McInnes held a successful show of his paintings at the Athenaeum gallery in conjunction with F. R. Crozier, which was followed in 1911 by a journey to Europe, where he did much landscape painting and made acquaintance with the masterpieces of Rembrandt, Velasquez and Raeburn.McInnes was represented in London at the exhibition of the Royal Institute of Painters in oils in 1913, and returned to Melbourne in the same year. A one man show was held at the Athenaeum gallery and nearly everything was sold. In 1916 he acted as locum tenens for Frederick McCubbin, master of the school of drawing at the national gallery, Melbourne, during his six months' leave of absence, and after his death was temporarily appointed to the position in 1918. In 1920 he was permanently appointed. In 1921 he won the first of his Archibald Prizes for portraiture.