Louis Buvelot b. 3 March 1814

Also known as Abram-Louis Buvelot
  • Artist (Photographer),
  • Artist (Painter),
  • Artist (Printmaker)
Swiss landscape painter and portrait photographer, settled in Melbourne in 1864, admired by the artists from the Heidelberg area such as Tom Roberts and Arthur Streeton who bestowed him with the accolade of 'Father of Australian painting'. In the 1870s, his work increasingly drew elements from Australian landscape such as the bush land in works like Lilydale (1878) and Bush Track.

Citations

  • Thomas, D., North, I., & McCarthy F. (1972), 'The Australian Landscape’.

  • Thomas, D., North, I., & McCarthy F. (1972), 'The Australian Landscape’.

  • Moore, William (1934), 'The Story of Australian Art’.

  • Gray, J. (1976), 'Abram Louis Buvelot’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, ed. D. Pike, A. Shaw, M. Clark, B. Nairn, G. Serle and R. Ward, vol 3, Melbourne 1966-1976.

  • Bonyhady, T. (1985), 'Images in Opposition’, Melbourne, Vic.

  • Borrow, K.T. (1976), 'The dispersal of Buvelot’s paintings’, Australasian Antique Collector.

  • Kolenberg, H. (1991), 'Louis Buvelot’, in B. Pearce (ed.), Swiss Artists in Australia 1777-1991, AGNSW, Sydney, NSW.

  • Smith, B. (1971), 'Australian Painting’, Melbourne, Vic.

  • State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, Art Library reference catalogue.

  • 'Victorian Artists Society papers’, La Trobe Collection, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, Vic.

  • Gray, J., 'Abram Louis Buvelot and the art of the French painters of Barbizon’, Art and Australia 16/2.

  • Gray, J., 'Louis Buvelot: Landscape and portrait photographer’, C.B. Christesen (ed.).

  • Gray, J. (1970), 'The Gallery on Eastern Hill’, Melbourne, Vic.

  • Gray, J. (with Ansermoz-Dubois, F., Ansermoz-Dubois, V. & Bastin, M.) (1985), 'Louis Buvelot 1814-1888’, La Société Vaudoise des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne.

  • Bonyhady, T. (1987), 'The Colonial Image’, Sydney, NSW.

  • Smith, James (1870), Argus, 12-01.

  • (1874), Illustrated Australian News, 10-07.

Initial data sources

  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870