Artists

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.

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.

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.

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.