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Australia artists
Where artists of this country were born, trained and worked, what they painted and which of their works are in the catalogue. Pick a city, era or genre.
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Arthur Streeton
1867 – 1943A 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 artist.
MelbourneSydney30 works
Tom Roberts
1856 – 1931English-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.
MelbourneSydney26 works
Frederick McCubbin
1855 – 1917A 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 Melbourne artists.
Melbourne20 works
Julian Ashton
1851 – 1942English-born Ashton founded the Julian Ashton Art School in Sydney and urged his students to paint local life and scenery outdoors.
MelbourneSydney19 works
Walter Withers
1854 – 1914English-born Withers settled in Melbourne in 1883 and painted the farms, creeks and storms of Heidelberg and Eltham as a Heidelberg School landscapist.
Melbourne14 works