Sir arthur streeton australian artists

Biography

One of Australia’s best known and most influential landscape painters, Arthur Streeton was a key member of the Heidelberg school of Australian impressionism – the first distinctively Australian school of painting.

For many people, Streeton’s paintings defined a unique image of this country.

Sir arthur streeton australian artists

He spent much of the early 20th century in Europe and served as war artist during the First World War, but later returned to Australia, where he also worked as an art critic.

Streeton received little formal training in art beyond night classes at the National Gallery of Victoria school in Melbourne from 1882 to 1887, but his career developed after he met fellow artist Tom Roberts.

Along with Frederick McCubbin, and later Charles Conder, he joined Roberts’s camps at Box Hill and Heidelberg in Victoria. Painting in the open air, they worked on representing Australia’s light, heat, space and distance.

Streeton himself established an ongoing artists’ camp in