LANDSCAPE ART IN AUSTRALIA 



or landscape, with what may be termed an Australian feeling. Some 

 years ago, under engagement with the publishers of "The Picturesque 

 Atlas of Australia," he for three years travelled over the whole of 

 Australia making sketches and drawings, subsequently settling down 

 as a teacher of art whose influence has been all for good to those who 

 have been so fortunate as to receive their art training under him, and to 

 the advancement of the art movement. Julian Ashton is a born teacher, 

 and many Australian painters now practising their art in the old country 

 were his students. In Sydney art circles the veteran artist is known as 

 the unofficial Dean of the Faculty of Art in New South Wales. He 

 paints equally well in both oil and water-colour, and has a wide range 

 of subjects, portraiture, the figure, marine pieces and landscape, all re- 

 ceiving masterly treatment at his hands. He has exhibited works both 

 at the Royal Academy and the Paris Salon, and is well represented in 

 the Art Galleries of Sydney and Adelaide. 



Will Ashton (pp. 51 to 56), who belongs to the younger generation 

 of Australian painters, was born in England in 1881. His father, an 

 art teacher of established reputation in Adelaide, South Australia, gave 

 him his first lessons in art. He then went to England and became a 

 student of Julius Olsson, A.R.A., and A. M. Talmage, and also studied 

 at Julians' in Paris. Seldom has swifter recognition come to a painter 

 than h.as fallen to his lot. He has had successful exhibitions in three 

 of the principal cities of the Commonwealth. He paints nature in a 

 realistic manner and his canvases are fine in composition and always 

 dignified. He is a frequent exhibitor at the Royal Academy, the Paris 

 Salon and the Royal Institute of Oil Painters. He is represented in 

 the Art Galleries of Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, and Perth. Possessed 

 as he is with a spirit of intense devotion to his art and indomitable per- 

 severance, there should be a successful future before him. He was 

 awarded the Wynne Prize at Sydney in 1908 for the best landscape of 

 the year. 



Hans Heysencame to South Australia with his parents in 1883. He 

 received his early art training under James Ashton in Adelaide, sub- 

 sequently studying in Paris and other cities of the Continent, and ex- 

 hibited at the Paris Salon. He has twice been awarded the Wynne 

 Prize (Sydney) for landscapes, oil and water-colour. His work is vigorous 

 and strong ; he paints the Bush with realism, while in dealing with the 

 subtleties of Australian light he is very successful. He is represented in 

 the Art Galleries of Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, and Perth. 

 Gustave A. Barnes (pp. 58 and 59) was born in London in 1878, and 

 came to South Australia very early in life. He has always been closely 

 associated with art, his father being a skilled designer and modeller. At 

 the age of twenty-one he returned to England, where for some years he 

 studied at various schools and won scholarships. By this happy method 

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