Artists

Finland Swedish painter and illustrator

Slovak painter

American artist and author

British artist

Swedish architect

Swiss artist

French painter

American artist

German draughtsman and painter

artist and soldier

Austrian painter

Symbolist painter

French painter

German landscape artist

Polish painter

American artist

American painter

French painter

French painter

Dutch painter

Polish painter

English painter

American painter

American artist

Swiss painter

Dutch painter and printmaker regarded as a forerunner of Impressionism

American-Canadian artist

American painter

Austrian painter and architect

Polish painter

Scottish artist and war correspondent

Italian painter

Polish artist, painter, graphic artist, printmaker

Dutch landscape painter

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.

An established English landscape painter who emigrated to Van Diemen's Land in 1831, Glover is often called the father of Australian landscape painting.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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