Smith, Charles Roderick (1912-1949)

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Purves Smith, Peter (1912-1949)
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painter
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PURVES SMITH, CHARLES RODERICK (PETER) (1912-1949), artist, was born on 26 March 1912 in East Melbourne, son of William Purves Smith, grazier, and his wife Laura, née Chapman, both Victorian born. The family lived much of the time in Melbourne or abroad and Peter, as he was always known, was educated at a prep school in England and Geelong Church of England Grammar School. In January 1926, at his father's wish, he became a cadet midshipman at the Royal Australian Naval College but, disliking the discipline, left the navy at the end of his course in December 1929. For three years he worked as a jackeroo in remote New South Wales, the background for paintings of the outback and macabre short stories written later in France and England. His father suicided on Christmas Eve 1932.

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