Flemish Northern Renaissance Painter, ca.1500-1551  Related Paintings of ISENBRANT, Adriaen :. | Virgin and Child tt | Rest during the Flight to Egypt dg | Virgin and Child Enthroned sf | The Repentant Magdalen | Mass of St Gregory sf |
Related Artists:
Campin, Robert, Follower of
Italian, 1400s
Robert Home
1752-1834
Julian Ashton
Australian Painter, 1851-1942 was an Australian artist and teacher, known for his support of the Heidelberg School and for his influential art school in Sydney. Ashton was born in Addlestone, Surrey, England and arrived in Australia in 1878 with a background in the contemporary French realism of the Barbizon School, which emphasised painting en plein air (i.e. direct from nature, as opposed to studio-based painting), and which laid the basis for the Impressionist movement. As a trustee of the Art Gallery of New South Wales he championed emerging Australian artists of the Australian Impressionist or Heidelberg School, and the Gallery's decision to collect these works owes much to his influence. According to James Gleeson, Ashton's oil paintings, much-admired in his own lifetime,