Tom Roberts (1856)
Roberts was born in England and immigrated to Australia as a teen. By day, he worked as a photographer’s assistant and a picture-frame maker, but by night, he studied art and painted. His scenes of rural Australian life, often with humorous touches, earned disapproval from conventional art critics, yet they are now recognized as prime examples of the so-called Heidelberg school of art. One unusually large Roberts painting, appropriately entitled The Big Picture, depicts what?More… Discuss
Tom Roberts’ masterpiece, Shearing the Rams depicts an Australian shearing shed in the late 1800s (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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