Marcus Beilby

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| name = Marcus Charles Beilby

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1951|11|20}}{{cite news |title=Births |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/49001474 |accessdate=10 February 2020 |work=The West Australian |date=23 November 1951 |location=Perth, WA |page=20}}

| birth_place = Perth, Western Australia

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| nationality = Australian

| alma_mater = Claremont Technical College

| known_for = Painting

| notable_works = Crutching the Ewes,{{cite web |last1=Beilby |first1=Marcus |title=Crutching the Ewes 1987 |url=https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/australianimpressionism/education/images/contemp/beilby_600.jpg |website=Australian Impressionism |publisher=National Gallery of Victoria |accessdate=10 February 2020 |location=Melbourne}} Opening of Parliament House by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on 9 May 1988{{cite web |title=The 30th anniversary of Australia's Parliament House |url=https://www.aph.gov.au/25th_Anniversary_Chronology/The_official_opening |publisher=Parliamentary Library, Parliament of Australia |accessdate=10 February 2020 |location=Canberra}}

| style = Photorealism

| awards = 1987 Sir John Sulman Prize for Australian Genre Painting

| website = {{URL|http://marcusbeilby.com}}

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Marcus Charles Beilby (born 20 November 1951, in Western Australia), is an Australian realist painter.{{cite web |title=Marcus Beilby: Western Realism |url=https://www.charlesnodrumgallery.com.au/exhibitions/marcus-bielby/ |website=Exhibition Catalogue |publisher=Charles Nodrum Gallery |accessdate=10 February 2020 |location=Richmond, Victoria |date=2017}} Beilby grew up in the Perth suburb of Mount Pleasant. He was educated at Applecross Senior High School and the Claremont Technical College, where he received a Diploma of Fine Arts (Painting) in 1975.{{cite web |title=Marcus Beilby |url=http://www.listergallery.com.au/content/cvs/mbeilby.pdf |website=Lister Gallery |accessdate=10 February 2020 |location=Subiaco, WA}}

Beilby was the winner of the 1987 Sir John Sulman Prize for Australian Genre Painting.{{cite web |title=Winner for 1987 |url=https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/prizes/sulman/1987/ |website=Prizes: Sir John Sulman Prize |publisher=Art Gallery of New South Wales |accessdate=10 February 2020 |location=Sydney}} The winning painting, Crutching the ewes has been described as a homage to Tom Roberts' Shearing the Rams.{{cite web |last1=Beilby |first1=Marcus |title=Contemporary views |url=https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/australianimpressionism/education/insights_cviews.html |website=Australian Impressionism |publisher=National Gallery of Victoria |accessdate=10 February 2020 |location=Melbourne}}

In 1988, Charles Bush received a royal commission from Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II to depict the inauguration of the permanent Parliament House. Bush died the next year, leaving behind an initial sketch. As a result, Marcus Beilby was chosen to finalize the artwork and carry out the completion of the painting.{{Cite web |last=Kohen |first=Apolline |title=History of the Historic Memorials Collection |url=https://www.aph.gov.au/Visit_Parliament/Art/Collection_in_focus/History_of_the_Historic_Memorials_Collection |access-date=2023-08-31 |website=Parliament of Australia |language=en-AU}}

He currently resides in East Fremantle, Western Australia.{{cite web |title=Curiculun Vitae |url=http://marcusbeilby.com/index.php/biography-2/8-curriculum-vitae-marcus-beilby |website=Marcus Beilby Australian Realist Painter |accessdate=10 February 2020 |location=East Fremantle, WA}}

His father was the noted Australian author and novelist Richard Beilby.{{cite web |title=Marcus Beilby |url=https://www.hcourt.gov.au/artists-of-the-high-court/marcus-beilby |website=Artists of the High Court |publisher=High Court of Australia |accessdate=10 February 2020 |location=Canberra}}