![]() Tom Roberts photograph Reproduced in R.H. Croll Tom Roberts: father of Australian landscape painting. Melbourne: Robertson and Mullens Ltd. (1935) National Library of Australia. |
THE NATIONAL
LIBRARY OF AUSTRALIA'S FEDERATION GATEWAY ROBERTS, THOMAS WILLIAM (1856-1931) Roberts was born in Dorchester,
England on 9 March 1865, and arrived in Melbourne with his widowed mother in
1869. Roberts was the first major Australian painter to be selected to study at
the Royal Academy of Arts, London in 1881. He studied impressionism in Europe,
returning to Australia in 1885 and camped with Frederick McCubbin at Box Hill
and with Arthur Streeton and Charles Conder at Eaglemont, and dedicated himself
to painting the light and colour of the bush. He led the 'Heidelberg
School' of artists. |
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