I had always considered the artist, Tom Roberts, an Australian. However he was born in Dorset England and migrated as a 14 year old to Melbourne Australia .... only returning to London to study 3 years full time at the Royal Academy of Art, and also for an extended period of time in the early 1900's. He was considered to be of the Heidelberg School Period.
(Artists who painted en plein air in rural Heidelberg Victoria , could be considered as the "Heidelberg School". Since then, the term has evolved and covers painters who worked together at "artists' camps" around Melbourne and Sydney in the 1880s and 1890s. Wikipedia.) Let me confess from the outset ... I'm no artist myself, unfortunately. I would love to be able to express myself on the canvas or alternatively as a singer or musician. But I know what I like with my eyes, and I know what I like with my ears! And Tom Roberts' paintings, especially the Australian ones, are among my favourites. So I took myself to the National Gallery of Australia ... and special exhibition of Tom Roberts' works brought together for a short period of time.
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December 2019
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