Australian artists

English-born Conder grew up in Sydney and Melbourne, joined the Heidelberg School circle and became famous for delicate, silk-painted fans and beach scenes before movi…

An established English landscape painter who emigrated to Van Diemen's Land in 1831, Glover is often called the father of Australian landscape painting.

A leading figure of the Heidelberg School, Streeton painted sunlit Australian pastoral scenes, Sydney Harbour and, later, the First World War front as an official war…

English-born Roberts emigrated to Melbourne as a teenager and became the central figure of the Heidelberg School, best known for Shearing the Rams and Coming South.

Martens sailed as artist on HMS Beagle with Darwin, settled in Sydney in 1835 and became the leading painter of Sydney Harbour and the colony's landscapes.

Raised in Sydney, Gruner is known for high-key landscapes of frosty mornings and golden light that carried the plein-air tradition into the twentieth century.

Austrian-born von Guérard worked in Australia from 1852 to 1882 and painted finely detailed landscapes of Victoria, New South Wales and Tasmania in the Düsseldorf trad…

A founding member of the Heidelberg School, McCubbin made the Australian bush a subject for large, emotional paintings such as The Pioneer, and taught generations of M…

Sydney-born impressionist who lived in France, painted the rugged coast of Belle-Île and counted Monet and van Gogh among his friends.

English-born Ashton founded the Julian Ashton Art School in Sydney and urged his students to paint local life and scenery outdoors.

Swiss-born Buvelot arrived in Melbourne in 1865 and, with his gentle views of the Victorian countryside, strongly influenced the Heidelberg School.

Raised in Melbourne, Ramsay studied in Melbourne and Paris and painted striking portraits before dying of tuberculosis at the age of twenty-eight.

Beckett painted misty, tonal views of Melbourne's bayside suburbs in the early morning and at dusk; overlooked in her lifetime, she is now counted among Australia's fi…

A Melbourne impressionist, Phillips Fox trained in Melbourne and Paris and painted light-filled scenes of women, children and gardens, as well as the historic Landing…

Associated with the Heidelberg School, Davies painted soft evening and moonlit views around Templestowe before settling in Cornwall.

Transported to New South Wales as a convict in 1832, Backler became a portrait and landscape painter in Sydney, active from the 1840s to 1880.

English-born Withers settled in Melbourne in 1883 and painted the farms, creeks and storms of Heidelberg and Eltham as a Heidelberg School landscapist.

Fullwood moved to Sydney as a young man, illustrated the Picturesque Atlas of Australasia, joined the Heidelberg painters at Sirius Cove and served as an Australian wa…

Sydney-born Grosvenor Thomas moved to England and painted impressionist landscapes and still lifes.

One of the most prolific portraitists of his time and a five-time Archibald Prize winner, Longstaff worked in Melbourne and London and served as a war artist.

Long turned the Australian landscape into Symbolist and Art Nouveau scenes such as Spirit of the Plains, before moving to London in 1910.

Duterrau emigrated to Hobart in 1832 and painted portraits and early history pictures of Tasmania, including images of Aboriginal Tasmanians.

A painter, watercolourist and illustrator, Mahony drew bush life, cattle and horses for The Bulletin and other Australian publications.

Melbourne-born Coates studied in Melbourne and Paris, settled in London and painted portraits and Great War scenes.

Born in St Petersburg and raised in Sydney, Lambert became one of Australia's foremost portraitists and an official war artist of the First World War.

New Zealand-born Power became an Australian official war artist in the First World War and was known for battle scenes and animal paintings.

A modernist who studied in London and Melbourne, Purves Smith painted sharp, satirical scenes of city life and the war years.

Raised in Tasmania, Dowling painted portraits and Aboriginal subjects in Launceston and Melbourne before moving to London in 1857.

Gill documented colonial Australia in watercolours and lithographs, from Adelaide streets and exploring expeditions to the Victorian goldfields.

Adelaide-born Bowen left for London in 1914, became known for portraits and everyday scenes, and was later an Australian official war artist documenting RAF bomber crews.

A Melbourne portraitist, McInnes won the Archibald Prize seven times and taught at the National Gallery of Victoria art school.

Melbourne-born Bunny spent most of his career in Paris, where he won Salon honours for luminous mythological and seaside scenes, before returning home in the 1930s.

Born in Hobart, Piguenit painted the wild Tasmanian highlands, the Murray-Darling rivers and mountain scenery, and worked in Sydney from the 1870s.