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John de Burgh Perceval AO (1 February 1923 – 15 October 2000) was a well-known Australian artist. Perceval was the last surviving member of a group known as the Angry Penguins who redefined Australian art in the 1940s.
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- Linwood Robert Steven South, 1 February 1923, Bruce Rock, Western Australia, Australia
John Thomas Perceval (14 February 1803 – 28 February 1876) was a British army officer who was confined in lunatic asylums for three years and spent the rest of his life campaigning for reform of the lunacy laws and for better treatment of asylum inmates.
John Perceval had little formal training as an artist, but after he fell ill with polio at the age of 15 he concentrated on painting and drawing. He came to know the Boyd family and the Angry Penguins circle of Heide Park and they were the greatest influence on his developing style.
John Perceval is a blue-chip artist, with a solid reputation for creating art that increases in value over time, offering an alternative investment. Blue-chip art usually sells for the high price at auctions Sulphur Smoke $589,000, Scudding Swans $690,000.
John Perceval, 2nd earl of Egmont was an eccentric British politician and pamphleteer, a confidant of George III. Perceval sat in the Irish House of Commons from 1731 to 1748, when he succeeded to his father’s earldom in the Irish peerage. His interests, however, were in British politics.
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John Perceval. Alongside Arthur Boyd, Joy Hester, Sidney Nolan and Albert Tucker, John Perceval dominated the art scene in Melbourne in the 1940s, recognised for his expressive figurative paintings, revealing a sense of alienation and detachment from Australian society - Boy with Cat, 1943 is a key work from this period. Perceval was largely ...
Perceval held his first solo exhibition at the Melbourne Book Club in 1948 and showed regularly with the Contemporary Art Society. Between 1949 and 1955 he concentrated on producing earthenware ceramics and helped to establish the Arthur Merric Boyd Pottery in Murrumbeena.
