Charles Samuel Bennett
A noted artist, Charles Bennett was active in the Melbourne Artistic community in the late 1880’s, and exhibited in London and Melbourne during that time.
Charles was born in South Yarra in 1869 and was employed by David Syme and Co. as an engraver for the Age newspaper.
Louis Buvelot and his wife took an interest in him and encouraged him in his art.
Charles married Zilpah Pike, but their only son Royden Bennett, died in France in the First World War.
The Latrobe Library has a collection of his work and he became famous for his water colour sketches.
At the time of his death in 1930 he was living in Hampden Street Mornington.
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