Editing Australian art (section)

===Gold rushes and expansion (1851–1885)===
[[File:Eugene VON GUÉRard - North-east view from the northern top of Mount Kosciusko - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|Eugene von Guérard, ''North-east view from the northern top of Mount Kosciusko'', 1863]]
From 1851, the [[Victorian gold rush]] resulted in a huge influx of settlers and new wealth. [[S. T. Gill]] (1818–1880) documented life on the Australian gold fields,<ref name="James Gleeson 1971" /> however the colonial art market primarily desired landscape paintings, which were commissioned by wealthy landowners or merchants wanting to record their material success.<ref>{{Cite web|title=National Gallery of Australia. Travelling exhibitions|url=http://nga.gov.au/Exhibition/OceantoOutback/pdf/O2OEDUKIT.pdf|access-date=2020-08-27|website=National Gallery of Australia}}</ref>

[[William Piguenit]]'s (1836–1914) "Flood in the Darling" was acquired by the National Gallery of New South Wales in 1895.<ref name="ReferenceA">McCulloch, Alan McCulloch, Susan McCulloch & Emily McCulloch Childs: ''McCulloch's Encyclopedia of Australian Art'' Melbourne University Press, 2006</ref>

Some of the artists of note included [[Eugene von Guerard]], [[Nicholas Chevalier]], [[William Strutt (artist)|William Strutt]], [[John Skinner Prout]] and [[Knud Bull]].

[[File:Louis Buvelot - Summer afternoon, Templestowe - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|left|Louis Buvelot, ''Summer Afternoon, Templestowe'', 1866]]
[[Louis Buvelot]] was a key figure in landscape painting in the later period. He was influenced by the [[Barbizon school]] painters, and so using a ''[[plein air]]'' technique, and a more domesticated and settled view of the land, in contrast to the emphasis on strangeness or danger prevalent in earlier painters. This approach, together with his extensive teaching influence, have led his to dubbed the "Father of Landscape Painting in Australia".<ref name="Bernard Smith 2001" />

A few attempts at art exhibitions were made in the 1840s, which attracted a number of artists but were commercial failures. By the 1850s, however, regular exhibitions became popular, with a variety of art types represented. The first of these exhibitions was in 1854 in Melbourne. An art museum, which eventually became the [[National Gallery of Victoria]], was founded in 1861, and it began to collect Australian works as well as gathering a collection of European masters. Crucially, it also opened an art school, important for the following generations of Australian-born and raised artists.

[[Henry James Johnstone|Henry James Johnstone (also known as H. J. Johnstone)]], a professional photographer and student of Buvelot, painted the large-scale bush scene ''Evening Shadows'' (1880), the first acquisition of the [[Art Gallery of South Australia]] and possibly Australia's most reproduced painting.<ref>[http://www.artgallery.sa.gov.au/TLF/01/ 'Evening shadows, backwater of the Murray, South Australia'], Art Gallery of South Australia. Retrieved 27 February 2017.</ref>

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Robert Dowling - Group of natives of Tasmania - Google Art Project.jpg|Robert Dowling, ''Group of Natives of Tasmania'', 1860
Nicholas Chevalier - Mount Arapiles and the Mitre Rock - Google Art Project.jpg|Nicholas Chevalier, ''Mount Arapiles and the Mitre Rock'', 1863
William Strutt Black Thursday detail.jpg|William Strutt, ''[[Black Thursday bushfires|Black Thursday, February 6th]]'' (detail), 1864
H J. Johnstone - Evening shadows, backwater of the Murray, South Australia - Google Art Project.jpg|H. J. Johnstone, ''Evening Shadows'', 1880
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