Early Life and Training Rupert Charles Wolston Bunny (1864 - 1947) was an Australian painter, born in St Kilda, Victoria. He received a traditional and academic education in the arts under Calderon and Laurens. This foundation would later serve him well in his successful career as an expatriate artist in fin-de-siècle Paris. His father, Brice Frederick Bunny, was a British Victorian county court judge, and his mother, Marie Hedwig Dorothea Wulsten, was German. He had an affluent upbringing and travelled extensively during his childhood, gaining fluency in English, French, and German—a skill t…