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(Richard) Hayley Lever was a painter, etcher, lecturer and art instructor who was born in Adelaide, Australia on September 18, 1876.

He studied at the Prince Alfred Cultural Institute in Adelaide, the N.Y.C. Art Students League and in Paris and in London.

He was a member of the American Painters and Etchers, National Arts Club, California Academy of Fine Arts, Royal British Academy (London), Associate (1925) and Full Academician (1933) at the National Academy (NYC), the royal Institute of Oil Painters (London), the Royal West of England Academy; the Contemporaries and the New Society of Artists.

Lever won numerous gold and silver medals for artistic achievement at the National Academy, Penn. Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia Watercolor Club, Pan-Pacific Exposition (1915), the Montclair Art Assoc., and elsewhere.