Charles Blanchard

  • Artist (Painter)
Charles Blanchard painted scenes of Melbourne and Hobart Town in the late 1870s/early 1880s. His 'Bourke Street, Melbourne' painting has drawn comparisons to Tom Roberts' 'Bourke Street' which was executed from of a similar vantage point.

painter, painted the oil on canvas Bourke Street, Melbourne in 1881 (RNK NLA) from a similar vantage point to Tom Roberts in his famous Bourke Street painting, but in a dark atmospheric linear style. {The two make a most interesting comparison.} A detail is used for the cover of Jennifer M.T. Carter, Eyes to the Future: Sketches of Australia and her Neighbours in the 1870s (Canberra: NLA, 2000), and the full painting is illustrated on p.109. Blanchard’s Liverpool Street, Hobart Town of 1879 (NLA) is on p.20.

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Staff Writer
Date written:
1999
Last updated:
2011