Tom Roberts b. 9 March 1856

  • Artist (Photographer),
  • Artist (Printmaker),
  • Artist (Sculptor),
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator),
  • Artist (Draughtsman),
  • Artist (Painter)
One of Australia's most iconic painters, Tom Roberts was an early champion of plein-air painting and together with Frederick McCubbin, Roberts helped establish the famous painting camps around Heidelberg in Victoria.
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Citations

  • 'National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT’.

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

  • Croll, R.H. (1935), 'Tom Roberts: Father of Australian Landscape Painting’, Robertson & Mullens, Melbourne, Vic.

  • Spate, Virginia (1964), 'Tom Roberts catalogue of Tom Roberts works’, manuscript.

  • Spate, Virginia (1972), 'Tom Roberts’, Lansdowne Press, Melbourne, Vic. (revised 1978).

  • Topliss, Helen (1985), 'Tom Roberts 1856-1931, A Catalogue Raisonné’, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, Vic. (2 vols.).

  • McQueen, Humphrey (1996), 'Tom Roberts’, Macmillan, Melbourne, Vic.

  • Radford, Ron (1996), 'Tom Roberts’, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA.

  • Eagle, Mary (1997), 'The Oil Paintings of Tom Roberts in the National Gallery of Australia’, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT.

Initial data sources

  • National Gallery of Australia

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