Artist of the Day, May 11, 2026 : Brian Dunlop, an Australian painter (#2523)

 Brian Dunlop (1938–2009) was a still life and figurative painter born in Sydney, Australia. 
He won the Sulman Prize in 1980 for The Old Physics Building (genre painting). He was a finalist in the 2004 Archibald Prize with Brian Kenna: imagines Urfa. 

Dunlop painted in Sydney and Ebenezer in New South Wales and in Tuscany, Rome, Skyros, Majorca, Morocco and India. He painted portraits of public figures, including Queen Elizabeth II in 1984 for the 150th anniversary of the founding of Victoria. Dunlop settled in Panton Hill and then Port Fairy in Victoria. He held many exhibitions in Sydney and Melbourne.

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 Brian Dunlop

Self-Portrait

Adelaide St. Peter's Cathedral, 1958

The Gem, 1961

A Miraculous Draught of Fish,1962

Greek Musicians (Skyros), 1967

The Card Players, 1972

The Farm, 1973

Portrait nº 1, 1978

Room with a visitor, 1979

Threshold, 1980

Sunlit Still Life, 1981

Untitled (Backyard Landscape) 1982

Seated Lady, 1983

Sesquicentenary portrait of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, 1984

Pool of Light II, 1985

Interior, 1986

Still Life, 1989

Opening the Curtains, 1993

One Suchness, 2000

Studio with a Figure, 2003

Celebration of Nature's Bounty, 2003

Peaches, 2003

The Artichoke, 2003

The Clementine Tree, 2003

The Music of Light, 2003

The Music Room, 2003

The Pearl, 2003

The Recital, 2003

Wandering Figure, 2003

Space of Time II, 2004

Rondo for Two Pumpkins, 2006

Blue Face