Boundary rider

"Boundary rider" is painting by S. T. Gill, dated 1850.

Boundary rider, 1850. A work by S. T. Gill.

On onlly.art this reproduction sits within the Australian Artists collection. Painting · 1850 · medium: Painting. Current location: Australia.

Context for 1850: Landscape gained new prestige through groups such as the Barbizon painters in France and the Hudson River School in the United States, and by mid-century Realism turned to ordinary people and everyday labour. The first half of the nineteenth century moved from Neoclassicism to Romanticism, which placed emotion, nature, and the sublime at the centre of painting.

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S. T. Gill was an artist associated with Australian (1818–1880).

12 reproductions by this artist are available on onlly.art.