Australian artist Lloyd Frederic Rees (1895-1988) featured landscapes and architecture in his drawings and paintings.

Lloyd Frederic Rees was born in 1895 on the east coast of Australia in a small town named Yeronga near Brisbane in Queensland. His father, Owen Rees, was of Welsh ancestry, and his mother, Angéle Burguey, was of Mauritian and French descent.

When he was 21 years of age Rees was to visit Sydney in New South Wales for the first time, as well as Melbourne in Victoria. He worked in the Sydney studio of Smith and Julius at the invitation of Sydney Ure Smith, legendary art publisher and originator of "Art in Australia." After several years of this full-time employment, Rees visited Europe for the first time in 1923, returning to Australia the following year. He married Dulcie Metcalfe in 1926; she died in 1929. In 1931 he married Marjory Pollard.

In 1934 Rees' only child, Alan...