Education
Buckmaster studied at the National Gallery School in Melbourne.
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Ernest Buckmaster
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He became a painter of traditional portraits and landscapes with a substantial workrate. His work has been widely popular in Australia and New Zealand. Public art galleries in Australia and New Zealand hold large collections of his work.
Buckmaster disliked modern art, publicly denigrating it in letters to a newspaper.
Buckmaster was a Second World War official war artist for the Australian military"s Military History Section. Participant of his duties took him to Singapore.
Buckmaster"s work is on loan to The Hotel Windsor in Melbourne.
