Met and painted with Sisley, Boudin, and the young Claude Monet, but so poor that other artists auctioned their works to relieve his poverty.
Sisley
Until about 1800, Western landscape painting sought to reveal rather than to hide. It was JMW Turner and Caspar David Friedrich who popularised the effect of fog.
With the Industrial Revolution, painters started to depict the furnaces and factories which grew rapidly across Europe and North America. This selection runs to 1879.
If Brunelleschi had introduced Cubism instead of perspective projection, would that have altered human visual perception?
Evolution from realism to the more painterly. Then in the late 1890s, city landscapes in which the people are the landscape. Remarkable paintings seen in detail.
Gardens aren’t just for flowers, and paintings of vegetable gardens can be just as good art as the most resplendent roses.
He was famously and tragically killed in 1870, but how well do you know his paintings?
A unique opportunity to see the works of four of Australia’s most important painters, and to broaden understanding of Impressionism.
In the 1870s, four major artists painted scenes of rowing and similar watersports – apparently independently.
A noted critic and sculptor, a career painter, and an artist who became a local politician, with examples of their work.
The Eclectic Light Company 