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Bonar Dunlop was born on 1916 in New Zealand, is a New Zealand artist. Discover Bonar Dunlop's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 76 years old?

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1916

John Bonar Dunlop ARBS (1916–1992) was a New Zealand artist, sculptor, and illustrator who excelled at figurative work.

He later became known for his sculptures of New Zealand and Welsh rugby players.

Born in Dunedin, the son of Francis Dunlop, who lectured in moral philosophy at the University of Otago and who was also a Presbyterian minister, he grew up on the family farm.

1920

Shona Dunlop MacTavish (1920–2019) was his younger sister.

At the farm, Dunlop learned to ride proficiently and developed a love of horses that never left him, clearly visible in his later sculptures and illustrations.

1930

After the death of his father in his teens, the family moved to Europe, settling in the cultural hotbed of Vienna in the mid-1930s.

With the political turmoil of Central Europe, after two years they moved on to Paris.

Dunlop then continued to London to study at the Royal Academy Schools, where he won the prestigious Landseer Prize.

1940

This was interrupted in early 1940 when he volunteered to serve in Finland's short-lived 'Winter War', where his horse-riding abilities paid off.

Once the volunteers were demobbed, with Norway now under Nazi occupation, he and a companion attempted to escape on foot via the Arctic Circle.

https://www.newstatesman.com/world/europe/2022/06/molotov-cocktails-finland-winter-war-against-russia.

Their marathon failed when they were arrested, but he then found his way to Stockholm where he attended art-school for 18 months before eventually regaining Britain by plane.

There he joined the Royal Air Force and trained as a pilot in South Africa before flying on operations from bases in North Africa and Italy.

1946

After the war, in 1946, he moved to Sydney to join some of his family and attended Sydney Technical College.

1947

Here, in 1947, he married his teenage sweetheart from Vienna, Hilary Lennox Napier, an English dancer, and began a successful career as an illustrator, at that time mainly dramatic works for women's magazines and for books.

1949

He was the subject of Arthur Murch's portrait, which won the 1949 Archibald Prize.

1950

Since his time in Australia he had often worked on book illustration, very much the 1950s vogue, and in the 1960s he provided new covers and internal illustrations for Ruby Ferguson's Jill books - Jill's Gymkhana, Jill's Riding Club, A Stable for Jill - and later the paperback versions of the books.

1958

Until 1958-9 they lived in an extraordinary house in Whale Beach, where they had two children.

1959

In 1959 the family moved definitively to London where Dunlop thrived further as an illustrator, contributing to numerous high visibility advertising campaigns (Harrods, Rothmans, Lee Cooper, etc.).

1970

Although his primary career was as an illustrator and commercial artist, his real passion was for sculpture, and in the early 1970s he became a full-time sculptor, creating busts and sporting pieces, primarily of rugby players.

1975

His first one-man show was in London in 1975, and he subsequently exhibited at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wellington and in Dunedin.

Other shows followed in Edinburgh and Wales, and he was commissioned to do numerous portraits of sports personalities for trophies and private collections.

1976

After living in north London, Dunlop and his wife spent the latter part of their lives between a house in Mojácar, Spain, and Sussex, England, where he died on his 76th birthday.

2002

In 2002 an exhibition of his lively sketches and drawings, 1936–45, was held at the Galerie Beckel-Odille-Boicos in Paris, and in 2004 a major exhibition of his rugby sculptures and sketches was held at the Museum of Rugby in Twickenham.