Tom Roberts (1856-1931)
Born: March 9, 1856; United Kingdom
Died: September 14, 1931; Australia
Nationality: Australian
Art Movement: Impressionism
Thomas William "Tom" Roberts was a British-born Australian artist. After studying in art schools in Melbourne, he went to Europe in 1881 to pursue his training and went back home in 1885 equipped with the latest in art at that time.
Tom Roberts promoted en plein air painting and encouraged other artists to capture the national life of Australia into art. He is best known for Shearing the Rams (1890), A break away! (1891, and Bailed Up (1895), which are "national narratives". Further, Roberts was also a renowned portraitist.
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Tom Roberts started out as a photographer's assistant through the 1870s, while studying art at night under Louis Buvelot and befriending others who were to become famous artists such as Frederick McCubbin.
As his mother remarried to a man whom he did not get along well with, Roberts decided to further his studies of the art and went back to England to study at the Royal Academy Schools from 1881 to 1884. In 1883, he traveled to Spain with the artist John Peter Russell and there he met Spanish artists Laureano Barrau and Ramon Casas who introduced him to Impressionism and plein air painting. It was also during his time in London and Paris when Roberts became influenced by painters Jules Bastien-Lepage and James Abbott McNeill Whistler.
He started painting and sketching excursions to the outer suburbs together with McCubbin, Arthur Streeton, and Charles Conder in 1885 to represent Australia's light, heat, and space.
Throughout his lifetime, Tom Roberts painted a considerable number of landscape oil paintings and portraits.
