The National Gallery of Victoria Art School, associated with the National Gallery of Victoria, was a private fine arts college founded in 1867 and was Australia's leading art school of 50 years.
National Gallery of Victoria Art School students in 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
Melbourne National Gallery School life class in 1935 (L-R) Phyl Waterhouse, Alannah Coleman, Charles Bush, Jean Mcinnes and Miss Eastwood (posed not in front of their own canvases). On the walls; works by Hugh Ramsay, John Longstaff, Max Meldrum, James Quinn, Isaac Cohen and Charles Wheeler. Taken for Table Talk magazine
A group of students at the National Gallery of Victoria Art School with animal costumes c. 1930
James Peter Quinn
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James Peter Quinn was an Australian portrait painter born in Melbourne.
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.