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James Oswald Fairfax AC (27 March 1933 – 11 January 2017) was an Australian company director, philanthropist, and a member of the Fairfax family, an Australian family prominent in the newspaper publisher industry.
- Building An Enviable Collection
- The Dorset Art Embassy
- A Man Generous with His Wealth
Unlike most single-owner art collections previously dispersed in Australia, such as the $19 million-grossing Reg and Joy Grundy collection sold in 2013, Fairfax worked without a professional curator. He made all his own choices, drawing on personal expertise. Henry Mullholland is an art specialist with Deutscher and Hackett, which is selling 54 of ...
Fairfax's colonial paintings are what the auction industry describes as "museum quality", and they have been repatriated to Australia from his historic Standbridge Mill estate in Dorset, England, where the Oxford graduate used to spend several months each year. "At the house in Dorset he had predominantly Australian paintings and he very much saw t...
Mr Simpson described a man raised in the war-era who took seriously the responsibilities his family's immense wealth conferred on him. In 1987 Fairfax stepped down after a decade as chairman of the media company and sold his share of the family business to his half-brother Warwick. "In '87 he was 54 and for the first time in his life he was free," ...
James Fairfax was born on 10 August 1897 in Scarborough, Yorkshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Against All Flags (1952), Fortunes of Captain Blood (1950) and Last Train from Bombay (1952). He was married to Jessie C. Adams. He died on 8 May 1961 in Papeete, Tahiti.
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- Scarborough, Yorkshire, England, UK
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- Papeete, Tahiti
Jan 12, 2017 · James Fairfax retained a collection of classical European art, reputedly one of the finest in Australia. As the chairman of the media group then known as John Fairfax Ltd, he was, by necessity, more reserved.
James Fairfax, the philanthropist and former chairman of media group John Fairfax & Sons, who helped establish the independence of its newspapers, died on Wednesday, aged 83, at his home at ...
James Oswald Fairfax, a true philantropist, saw his life, his wealth, his cultural inheritance, his very being, as a force to enable other people.
With James Fairfax’s passing yesterday, Australia has lost one of its greatest arts patrons and philanthropists, and the National Gallery of Australia has lost one of its founders.
