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172:. Exhibitors included Wadham ("our premier artist"), Ashton, Reynolds, Bartels, Gooden, Presgrave, White, J. S. Gold, R. Büring, C. Siemer, Fred Burford and C. F. J. Crampton. In August 1894 an exhibition of oil portraits by
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In 1895 exhibitors included Wadham, Sinclair, Ashton, Gooden, Presgrave, White, Oscar
Fristrom, Miss Crane, C. Siemer, Edward Davies, Alf Scott Broad, Rose MacPherson, Miss E. Richards, Mrs Wholohan, Mrs Lermitte,
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In 1898 exhibitors included White, Ashton, Broad, Davies, Gooden, Heysen, Sinclair, Wadham, Blanche
Francis, Arthur Millbank, Jean Wilson, Mrs E. B. Bartlett, Miss Elvira von Bertouch, Miss C. Blundstone,
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620:"The Easel Club's Exhibition First Notice"
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