Adrian Feint

1894 - 1971

"...From childhood Adrian was interested in drawing and decorated his Narrandera school exercise-books at night. In 1912 he entered the Sydney Art School where he studied under Julian Ashton and Elioth Gruner. Feint enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force on 21 January 1916, served with the 15th Field Ambulance on the Western Front from February 1917 and was praised in September 1918 for the gallantry he displayed near Péronne, France. He was granted three months leave in 1919 to study at the Académie Julien, Paris..." Extract: Roger Butler, 'Feint, Adrian George (1894–1971)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, 1996

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