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Name	George James Coates
Born	9 August, 1869 South Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Died	27 July, 1930 (aged 60) London, Middlesex, England
Cause of Death	stroke
Related Entries	[View as tree] Bridges, William Throsby (acquaintance) Ferguson, James (employer) Urie, James (employer) Jacka, Albert (subject)
Education *	National Gallery art school (Melbourne) (student) St James's Grammar School (Melbourne) (student, 1881-1884) North Melbourne School of Design (student)
Occupation or Descriptor *	art teacher (1890-1895) Victoria, Australia painter (1890-1895) Victoria, Australia painter (1896-1921) Overseas portraitist (1912-1921) war artist (1915-1918) Federal, Australia
Awards	National Gallery of Victoria Travelling Scholarship (recipient, 1896)
Key Organisations *	National Portrait Society (London) (member) Royal Portrait Society (London) (member) Society of Artists (Sydney) (honorary member, ?-1930)
Workplaces *	Ferguson and Urie (employee, 1884)

* Dates are approximate

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