Early Life and Family of Leonard Long Born on April 25, 1911, in Summer Hill, New South Wales, Leonard Long entered a world shaped by the steady, rhythmic labor of his father, who worked as a baker. The young boy was raised amidst the rolling landscapes of Mittagong on the Southern Tablelands. It was here, surrounded by the natural contours of New South Wales, that he first revealed a natural aptitude for drawing. This early inclination toward the visual was not merely a passing whim; by the age of sixteen, he had already completed his first painting, marking the beginning of a lifelong rela…