Aileen Dent

Dent was born in 1890 in Deniliquin, New South Wales. From 1909 to 1916 she was a student at the National Gallery Art School in Melbourne.{{cite web|last1=Scherer|first1=Rodney|title=Aileen Rose Dent b. 1890|url=https://www.daao.org.au/bio/aileen-rose-dent/biography/|website=Design & Art Australia Online (DAAO)|accessdate=2 April 2018}}

Dent exhibited regularly at the Atheneum Gallery and was a finalist in the Archibald Prize many times. Her paintings were included in the exhibit Australian Women Artists, One Hundred Years 1840 - 1940.

The National Gallery of Australia owns Dent's portrait of Dame Elizabeth Couchman.{{cite web|title=Aileen Dent|url=https://www.portrait.gov.au/people/aileen-dent|website=National Portrait Gallery|accessdate=2 April 2018}}

Dent died in Wagga Wagga in 1978.{{cite news |title=Family Notices - Deaths |publisher=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=1 April 1978}}

The Charles Sturt University Art Collection holds the largest collection of her works, however her portraiture exists in other public and private collections. Works include:

• Portrait of Jean Burns 1934
• Portrait of H.P. Zwar 1937
• Portrait of Mrs Ryland 1927
• Portrait of Magnus Lagerlof 1935
• Portrait of Dr. H. Friedman 1932
• Portrait of C. Rigby C.B.E. 1942
• Portrait of Miss Gillman-Jones 1928
• Portrait of the Hon. King O'Malley 1934
• Portrait of Major General AC Short, CB, OBE 1954
• Portrait of Dr. Roland Wettenhall, M.B., B.S., F.R.A.P. 1952
• Portrait of Mr. Henry Searby, M.S. F.R.C.S., Q.H.S. 1953
• Portrait of Professor Boyce Gibson 1930, finalist, Archibald Prize, 1930{{cite web|url=https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/prizes/archibald/1930/ |title=Archibald Prize finalists 1930|publisher=Art Gallery, NSW |access-date=29 September 2020}}
• Portrait of Professor HF Schraeder 1927
• Portrait of Albert Edward Swanson, Esq. 1925
• Portrait of Hon. RK Whately, MA, MLA 1955
• Portrait of Brin Newton John, Esq. M.A. 1956
• Portrait of Miss Joyce Raymond 1938
• Portrait of Sir John Jungwirth, Secretary to the Premier of Victoria 1958
• Portrait of Rev. J. Noble-MacKenzie 1940
• Portrait of Professor HC Summers 1943
• Portrait of Rev. Henry Evans 1945
• Portrait of Sgt. W. Geoffrey Smith 1943
• Portrait of Professor John Gillies 1940
• Portrait of C.N. McKenzie, Esq. 1939
• Portrait of Rev. A.J. Stewart 1944
• Portrait of Hon. Sirt Frederick W. Eggleston 1944
• Portrait of Sir Charles Lowe 1950
• Portrait of Dr J.M. Baldwin, astronomer 1941
• Portrait of The Right Rev. GA Wood, BA 1962
• Portrait of John Allan, Premier of Victoria 1928{{cite web|url=http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/premiers-portraits/2208-john-allan-portrait|title=Parliament of Victoria - John Allan portrait|first=Robin|last=Gallagher|website=www.parliament.vic.gov.au}}
• Portrait of Robert McLeish, President of the Green Room Club ca.1950

• 1943, from 1 December; Inclusion in a group show of ninety-one paintings and etchings with Arnold Shore, Max Meldrum, John Rowell, Jas. Quinn, John Farmer, Mary Hurry, Dora Serle, Margaret Pestell, Dora Wilson, Isabel Tweddle, Allan Jordan, Murray Griffin, Geo. Colville, and Victor Cog. Hawthorn Library.{{Cite news |date=2 December 1943 |title=Art exhibition at Hawthorn |pages=4 |work=The Age}}

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• [https://www.mutualart.com/Artist/Aileen-Dent/C8ECA09F96CE6E08/Artworks images of Aileen Dent's paintings] on Mutual Art

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Category:1890 births

Category:1978 deaths

Category:20th-century Australian women artists

Category:20th-century Australian artists

Category:Archibald Prize finalists

Category:Artists from New South Wales

Category:National Gallery of Victoria Art School alumni

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