PAINTING PALACE
Source Supplier of Oil Paintings

In late 18th and early 19th century paintings, Australian landscapes were tame and elegant and bared a striking resemblance to English parkland. If Aborigines were depicted, they were purely decorative. Sure, there were 19th century artists like John Glover and Eugene von Guérard who did pick up the distinctive qualities of Australia's natural environment. But post-colonial Australian art did not become truly Australian until the late 1880's and 1890's, when a group of artists trained in Europe established the Heidelberg School outside of Melbourne. Artists like Tom Roberts, Arthur Streeton, Frederick McCubbin, Louis Abrahams, Charles Conder, David Davies, Jane Sutherland, and Walter Withers introduced impressionist principles and truly captured the light, color, and atmosphere of the Australian landscape and sky. They painted scenes captured by today's Australian movies—ordinary people, bush life, urban street scenes, and the outback.

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