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For the Australian politician, see Brett Whiteley (politician).

Brett WhiteleyAO (7 April – 15 June ) was an Australian artist. He is represented in the collections of all the large Australian galleries, and was twice winner of the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman prizes.^[1] He held many exhibitions, and lived and painted in Australia as well as Italy, the United Kingdom, Fiji and the United States.

Early years

Growing up in Longueville, a suburb of Sydney, Whiteley was educated at The Scots School, Bathurst^[2] and The Scots College, Bellevue Hill. He started drawing at a very early age.

While he was a teenager, he painted on weekends in the Central West of New South Wales and Canberra with such works as The soup kitchen ().^[3] Throughout to at the National Art School in East Sydney, Whiteley attended drawing classes.

While still at school, Whiteley visited the Macquar