George James Coates was an Australian painter, primarily a portraitist.
George Coates in 1921
National Gallery of Victoria Art School students 1896. Back: Amy Mann, Agnes Kirkwood, Leon Pole, George Coates, Albert Ends, Hugh Ramsay Middle: James S. MacDonald, Dora Meeson, Jo Sweatman, Ada Coutie, Isabel Hunter Front: George Pontin, Portia Geach
George Coates, Motherhood, 1903, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
George Coates (1912) Arthur Walker and his brother Harold (The Walker Brothers), oil on canvas. National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
James Peter Quinn was an Australian portrait painter born in Melbourne.
George James Coates
…John Coates. In 1884 he was apprenticed, aged 15, to stained glass makers Ferguson and Urie, and enrolled at the National Gallery school, studying with James Quinn, Norman and Percy Lindsay, Max Meldrum, Bess Norriss, Dora Meeson, Hugh Ramsay, Leon Pole, Jo Sweatman, Portia Geach, James S. MacDonald, Rose McPherson…
James Quinn (1939) Self portrait. AGNSW
My friend Harold Parker, c. 1907. Oil on canvas on board, 35.5 x 31 cm., collection of the National Library of Australia
James Quinn painting John Monash
James Quinn standing fifth from the left in this group portrait of Australian official war artists, 1916-1918 by George Coates, 1920. Oil on canvas, 124.2 x 104.5 cm. The painting presents, left to right: front — George Bell; standing — John Longstaff, Charles Bryant, George Washington Lambert, A. Henry Fullwood, Quinn (leaning over Leist), H. Septimus Power, Arthur Streeton; and seated back — Will Dyson, Fred Leist.