Derwent Lees

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Derwent Lees (1885 – 1931) was an Australian landscape painter.

Lees was born Desmond Lees in Brisbane and became a teacher at the Slade School of Art. He was a friend of Augustus John and James Dickson Innes, and spent the period from late 1910 to 1912 with them at a cottage called Nant Ddu in north Wales. In 1912 Innes and Lees went on another painting trip to Collioure in France.

In 1918 Lees suffered a mental breakdown and was committed to an asylum, where he spent the rest of his life.

A self-portrait (1917) is held by the National Portrait Gallery.

[edit] Works

  • Welsh Landscape in Winter

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