Aileen Dent

Aileen Rose Dent (1890 – 30 March 1978) was an Australian artist known for her portraits, specifically her portrait of Australian aviator Jean Burns.

Dent exhibited regularly at the Atheneum Gallery

Dent died in Wagga Wagga in 1978.

Works The Charles Sturt University Art Collection holds the largest collection of her works, however her portraiture exists in other public and private collections. Works include:

Portrait of Jean Burns 1934 Portrait of H. P. Zwar 1937 Portrait of Mrs Ryland 1927 Portrait of Magnus Lagerlof 1935 Portrait of Dr. H. Friedman 1932 Portrait of C. Rigby C.B.E. 1942 Portrait of Miss Gillman-Jones 1928 Portrait of the Hon. King O'Malley 1934 Portrait of Major General A. C. Short, CB, OBE 1954 Portrait of Dr. Roland Wettenhall, M.B., B.S., F.R.A.P. 1952 Portrait of Mr. Henry Searby, M.S. F.R.C.S., Q.H.S. 1953 Portrait of Professor Boyce Gibson 1930, finalist, Archibald Prize, 1930 Portrait of Professor H. F. Schraeder 1927 Portrait of Albert Edward Swanson, Esq. 1925 Portrait of Hon. R. K. Whately, MA, MLA 1955 Portrait of Brin Newton John, Esq. M.A. 1956 Portrait of Miss Joyce Raymond 1938 Portrait of Sir John Jungwirth, Secretary to the Premier of Victoria 1958 Portrait of Rev. J. Noble-MacKenzie 1940 Portrait of Professor H. C. Summers 1943 Portrait of Rev. Henry Evans 1945 Portrait of Sgt. W. Geoffrey Smith 1943 Portrait of Professor John Gillies 1940 Portrait of C. N. McKenzie, Esq. 1939 Portrait of Rev. A. J. Stewart 1944 Portrait of Hon. Sir Frederic W. Eggleston 1944 Portrait of Sir Charles Lowe 1950 Portrait of Dr J. M. Baldwin, astronomer 1941 Portrait of The Right Rev. G. A. Wood, BA 1962 Portrait of John Allan, Premier of Victoria 1928 Portrait of Robert McLeish, President of the Green Room Club ca.1950

Exhibitions 1943, from 1 December; Inclusion in a group show of ninety-one paintings and etchings with Arnold Shore, Max Meldrum, John Rowell, Jas. Quinn, John Farmer, Mary Hurry, Dora Serle, Margaret Pestell, Dora Wilson, Isabel Tweddle, Allan Jordan, Murray Griffin, George Colville, and Victor Cog. Hawthorn Library.