Artists

Australian artist, botanical illustrator and botanical collector

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.

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.

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.

Sydney-born Grosvenor Thomas moved to England and painted impressionist landscapes and still lifes.

One of the most prolific portraitists of his time and a five-time Archibald Prize winner, Longstaff worked in Melbourne and London and served as a war artist.

Long turned the Australian landscape into Symbolist and Art Nouveau scenes such as Spirit of the Plains, before moving to London in 1910.

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

Melbourne-born Coates studied in Melbourne and Paris, settled in London and painted portraits and Great War scenes.

A modernist who studied in London and Melbourne, Purves Smith painted sharp, satirical scenes of city life and the war years.

Adelaide-born Bowen left for London in 1914, became known for portraits and everyday scenes, and was later an Australian official war artist documenting RAF bomber crews.

A Melbourne portraitist, McInnes won the Archibald Prize seven times and taught at the National Gallery of Victoria art school.

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.

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