Australia artists

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 artist.

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 tradition.

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

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 finest painters.

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

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

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