Tom roberts Across the Dandenongs Painting ID:: 75461 new24/Tom roberts-653966.jpg
Across the Dandenongs Across the Dandenongs (1889, oil on wood panel, 13.7 x 23.1 cm) by Tom Roberts (1856-1931).
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Tom roberts By the Treasury Painting ID:: 75464 new24/Tom roberts-835556.jpg
By the Treasury By the Treasury (1889, oil on wood panel, 23.6 x 14.2 cm) by Tom Roberts (1856-1931).
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Tom roberts Self portrait Painting ID:: 77234 new24/Tom roberts-786674.jpg
Self portrait oil on canvas, 61.2 x 51.0 cm) by Tom Roberts
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Tom roberts The Artists Camp Painting ID:: 77235 new24/Tom roberts-583779.jpg
The Artists Camp 1886, oil on canvas, 46.0 x 60.9 cm) by Tom Roberts (1856?C1931).
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Tom roberts the Macintyre Painting ID:: 77259 new24/Tom roberts-538699.jpg
the Macintyre (1894, oil on canvas, 71.1 x 86.4 cm) by Tom Roberts (1856?C1931).
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Tom roberts Mentone Painting ID:: 77342 new24/Tom roberts-785983.jpg
Mentone 1889, oil on wood panel, 11.0 x 18.8 cm) by Tom Roberts (1856?C1931).
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Tom roberts Across the Dandenongs Painting ID:: 77345 new24/Tom roberts-895656.jpg
Across the Dandenongs (1889, oil on wood panel, 13.7 x 23.1 cm) by Tom Roberts (1856?C1931).
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Tom roberts Woman at the Piano Painting ID:: 77347 new24/Tom roberts-736645.jpg
Woman at the Piano 1889, oil on wood panel, 26.0 x 13.1 cm) by Tom Roberts (1856?C1931).
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Tom roberts By the Treasury Painting ID:: 77348 new24/Tom roberts-744589.jpg
By the Treasury 1889, oil on wood panel, 23.6 x 14.2 cm) by Tom Roberts (1856?C1931).
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Tom roberts From the Collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales Painting ID:: 78238 new24/Tom roberts-465599.jpg
From the Collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales Painting oil on wood 18.3 x 33.0cm board; 30.6 x 45.3 x 2.8cm frame Bequest of Olive Blashki 1985
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Tom roberts Wood splitters, Painting ID:: 79253 new24/Tom roberts-694348.jpg
Wood splitters, Wood splitters, painting, oil on canvas, 61.4 x 92.3 cm, by Tom Roberts
Date 1886(1886)
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Tom roberts The Quarry, Maria Island Painting ID:: 79410 new24/Tom roberts-767455.jpg
The Quarry, Maria Island The Quarry, Maria Island, painting, oil on canvas, 61.0 x 50.5 cm, by Tom Roberts
Date 1926(1926)
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Tom roberts Opening of the First Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia by H.R.H. The Duke of Cornwall and York Painting ID:: 79414 new24/Tom roberts-395783.jpg
Opening of the First Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia by H.R.H. The Duke of Cornwall and York Opening of the First Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia by H.R.H. The Duke of Cornwall and York (Later King George V), May 9, 1901 (also known as The Big Picture), painting, oil on canvas, by Tom Roberts
Date 1901(1901)
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Tom roberts An Australian Native Painting ID:: 79837 new24/Tom roberts-564786.jpg
An Australian Native 1888
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Tom roberts Wood splitters Painting ID:: 82300 new24/Tom roberts-435594.jpg
Wood splitters oil on canvas, 61.4 x 92.3 cm, by Tom Roberts
Date 1886(1886)
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Tom roberts The Quarry Painting ID:: 82355 new24/Tom roberts-683378.jpg
The Quarry oil on canvas, 61.0 x 50.5 cm, by Tom Roberts
Date 1926(1926)
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Tom roberts Chorus Painting ID:: 82359 new24/Tom roberts-694585.jpg
Chorus Date 1901
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Tom roberts The Golden Fleece Painting ID:: 95172 new26/Tom roberts-757978.jpg
The Golden Fleece 1894
Type oil on canvas
Dimensions 104.0 cm x 158.7 cm
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Tom roberts Bailed Up Painting ID:: 95175 new26/Tom roberts-745938.jpg
Bailed Up 1895
Type oil on canvas
Dimensions 134.5 cm x 182.8 cm
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British-born Australian Painter, 1856-1931
Australian painter of English birth. A leader of the HEIDELBERG SCHOOL and pioneer of plein-air Impressionism in Australia, he has been described as 'the father of Australian landscape painting'. Having moved to Melbourne in 1869, he studied at the East Collingwood and Carlton Schools of Design and the National Gallery of Victoria's School of Art (1874-81) while working as a photographic assistant. He led sketching expeditions with Frederick McCubbin and initiated student requests for reforms at the school. Returning to England, he enrolled in the Royal Academy Schools, London, on 6 December 1881, officially recommended by Edwin Long. In the summer of 1883 he toured Spain with the painter John Peter Russell. He learnt something of French Impressionism from Spanish art students Ramon Casas and Loreano Barrau (b 1864), and then followed the latter's advice to visit the Academie Julian in Paris. He returned to Melbourne in 1885 and the following year established the first summer camp at Box Hill with McCubbin and Louis Abrahams (1852-1903), portrayed in his painting the Artists' Camp (c. 1886; Melbourne, N.G. Victoria). According to the painter Arthur Streeton, it was Roberts's 'quick perception and expression of the principles of Impressionism in the year 1886,