Artists

Australian artist, botanical illustrator and botanical collector

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 moving to Europe.

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.

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 Melbourne artists.

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

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 of Captain Cook at Botany Bay.

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 war artist.

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

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.

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.