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3 unusual facts about Jeffrey Smart


Jasper Knight

In 2012 Knight was a finalist for the first time in the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize with a portrait of Australian painter Jeffrey Smart.

Jeffrey Smart

Jeffrey Smart was a patron and active supporter of the Tait Memorial Trust in London, a charity established by Isla Baring OAM, the daughter of Sir Frank Tait of JC Williamson's, to support young Australian performing artists in the UK.

In 1963, he moved to Italy, and in 1971 after a successful exhibition in London, bought "Posticcia Nuova" near Arezzo in Tuscany where he resided with his partner until his death.


The Brisbane Institute

Notable speakers include Justice Michael Kirby, Lady Kennedy of The Shaws and the painter Jeffrey Smart.


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