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Learn about Tom Roberts, a British-born Australian painter who was a key member of the Heidelberg School and a pioneer of en plein air painting. Explore his 98 artworks, including Shearing the Rams, A break away! and The Big Picture.
- Australian
- March 9, 1856
- United Kingdom
- September 14, 1931
Roberts painting The Big Picture, 1903. Roberts painted a considerable number of fine oil landscapes and portraits, some painted at artist camps with his friend McCubbin.
Learn about Tom Roberts, the leader of the Heidelberg school and a pioneer of impressionism in Australia. Explore his biography, works and style, and see his paintings of rural and urban landscapes.
'Tom Roberts's painting of the opening of the first Australian Federal Parliament at the Exhibition Building in Melbourne in 1901 contains 269 individual portraits.
Tom Roberts was a painter who introduced Impressionism to Australia. Arriving in Melbourne at age 13, Roberts worked as a photographer, supplementing his meagre earnings with paintings produced as an evening art student. In 1881 he went to England to study at the Royal Academy in London and toured.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
A leading member of the Heidelberg School of Australian Impressionism (1886-1900), active in Melbourne, Victoria, the English-born artist Tom Roberts is regarded as the father of indigenous landscape painting in Australia.
A painting of shearers at work by the Australian artist Tom Roberts, depicting the wool industry in New South Wales. Learn about the artist, the place, the date, the media, the signature and the location of this artwork.
