Australian Artists

Early painters of Australia included artists who recorded scientific and geographical information which were called topographical paintings. Professional artists on voyages of discovery from Great Britain (also known as the United Kingdom) recorded the coastlines and harbours, plants and animals, and local people of the new colony for official accounts; these painters were Thomas Watling, John Eyre, John Glover Conrad Martens and ST Gill. Most of the early Australian painters were amateur artists. The traditionally …

…also because in his work of art there is a large exposure of the sky and he also has rocks surrounding the outskirts of the painting as a sort of frame. Topographical artists who have may or may not have been trained painted the early colonial paintings of Australia. Their paintings were in tradition English and they recorded the coastlines and harbours, plants and animals, and local people of the new colony for official accounts.