Artists

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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