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TOM ROBERTS,1856 - 1931, BRITISH/AUSTRALIAN, A LATE 19TH CENTURY IMPRESSIONIST OIL ON CANVAS
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Twickenham, Greater London
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TOM ROBERTS,1856 - 1931, BRITISH/AUSTRALIAN, A LATE 19TH CENTURY IMPRESSIONIST OIL ON CANVAS Titled ‘Old Redfern Railway Station - Sydney - New South Wales - Australia’, signed lower left, inscribed, dated on the stretcher verso, dated 1890, framed.(sight 59cm x 89.5cm, frame 76cm x 107cm)N.B. Tom Roberts left London in 1869 as a child destined for Australia with his widowed mother and two younger siblings. He returned in 1881 where he enrolled in the Royal Academy Schools and began his career as a painter. As a student he visited Spain and Venice, and in early 1885 he studied at the highly influential Academie Julian in Paris under Jean-Leon Gerome. The following year he returned to Australia inspired by the Impressionist movement and rented a studio in Melbourne. He frequently painted ‘au plain air’, and encouraged other artists to join him in leaving the confines of the studio to pursue the quest to document in paint, the emerging people and landscape of Australia. Most notably with the group of painters who would be known as the Heidelberg Group. Often known by his nickname ‘Bulldog Roberts’, Tom Roberts was the leader of the groupA similar scene; ‘The Railway Station, Redfern’, was painted in 1893 by Robert’s pupil and friend, Arthur Streeton 1867 - 1943Robert’s returned to London around 1904 and forged a career primarily as a portrait painter. By the outbreak of the first World War, Roberts enlisted along with Arthur Streeton and several colleagues from the Chelsea Arts Club. He spent most of his war service at the 3rd London General Hospital in Wandsworth and was promoted to Corporal. He eventually returned to Australia in 1919.The present work has recently been conserved and strip-lined to restore the integrity of canvas edge and stretcher
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TOM ROBERTS,1856 - 1931, BRITISH/AUSTRALIAN, A LATE 19TH CENTURY IMPRESSIONIST OIL ON CANVAS Titled ‘Old Redfern Railway Station - Sydney - New South Wales - Australia’, signed lower left, inscribed, dated on the stretcher verso, dated 1890, framed.(sight 59cm x 89.5cm, frame 76cm x 107cm)N.B. Tom Roberts left London in 1869 as a child destined for Australia with his widowed mother and two younger siblings. He returned in 1881 where he enrolled in the Royal Academy Schools and began his career as a painter. As a student he visited Spain and Venice, and in early 1885 he studied at the highly influential Academie Julian in Paris under Jean-Leon Gerome. The following year he returned to Australia inspired by the Impressionist movement and rented a studio in Melbourne. He frequently painted ‘au plain air’, and encouraged other artists to join him in leaving the confines of the studio to pursue the quest to document in paint, the emerging people and landscape of Australia. Most notably with the group of painters who would be known as the Heidelberg Group. Often known by his nickname ‘Bulldog Roberts’, Tom Roberts was the leader of the groupA similar scene; ‘The Railway Station, Redfern’, was painted in 1893 by Robert’s pupil and friend, Arthur Streeton 1867 - 1943Robert’s returned to London around 1904 and forged a career primarily as a portrait painter. By the outbreak of the first World War, Roberts enlisted along with Arthur Streeton and several colleagues from the Chelsea Arts Club. He spent most of his war service at the 3rd London General Hospital in Wandsworth and was promoted to Corporal. He eventually returned to Australia in 1919.The present work has recently been conserved and strip-lined to restore the integrity of canvas edge and stretcher
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