George James Coates

Place: South Melbourne

Born: 1869

Death: 1930

Biography:

George James Coates (8 August 1869 – 27 July 1930) was an Australian painter. Coates was born in Emerald Hill (now South Melbourne, Victoria), the son of John Coates, an artist-lithographer of English stock, and his wife Elizabeth, a daughter of Ephraim Irwin who came from Ireland. George Coates was educated at St James Grammar School, then at the ...