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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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Hugh Ramsay
1877 – 1906Raised in Melbourne, Ramsay studied in Melbourne and Paris and painted striking portraits before dying of tuberculosis at the age of twenty-eight.
Melbourne18 works
Joseph Backler
1813 – 1895Transported to New South Wales as a convict in 1832, Backler became a portrait and landscape painter in Sydney, active from the 1840s to 1880.
Sydney14 works
John Longstaff
1861 – 1941One 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.
Melbourne13 works
George James Coates
1869 – 1930Melbourne-born Coates studied in Melbourne and Paris, settled in London and painted portraits and Great War scenes.
Melbourne12 works
George Washington Lambert
1873 – 1930Born 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.
Sydney12 works
William Beckwith McInnes
1889 – 1939A Melbourne portraitist, McInnes won the Archibald Prize seven times and taught at the National Gallery of Victoria art school.
Melbourne12 works