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,   Related Paintings of Julian Ashton :. | View of Narth Head,Sydney Harbour 1888 | Mosman Ferry 1888 | The Prospector | Study of a Woman-s head | A Waterhole on the Hawkesbury |
Related Artists:
Simon van der Does
Dutch , Amsterdam circa 1653-after 1718
Ernst Gustav Doerell
painted A View of the Doubravka from the Teplice Chateau Park in 1832 - 1877
Karl Kaspar Pitz
painted Portrait of a cleric a book in his right hand, by a marble bust in before 1795