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Name	Esther Gwendolyn Bowen
Born	16 May, 1893 North Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Died	30 October, 1947 (aged 54) London, Middlesex, England
Education *	Tormore House School (Adelaide) (student, 1905-1909) Westminster School of Art (London) (student, 1914-1915)
Occupation or Descriptor *	painter (1912-1914) South Australia, Australia art critic (1914-1944) Overseas landscape artist (1914-1944) Overseas portraitist (1914-1944) Overseas autobiographer/memoirist (1940-1940) Overseas war artist (1944-1945) Federal, Australia
Military Service *	World War II (war artist)

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