Terms and conditions of use
Field naturalists
(c. 1896)
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Measurements
- 80.9 × 121.3 cm
- Place/s of Execution
- Melbourne, Victoria
- Inscription
- inscribed in red paint l.r.: J Sutherland (rlan underlined)
- Accession Number
- 1062-5
- Department
- Australian Painting
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Mrs E. H. Shackell, 1962
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of The Vizard Foundation - Gallery location
- Gallery 6
Level 2, NGV Australia - About this work
-
Jane Sutherland was one of the leading female professional artists in Melbourne during the late nineteeth century. Reflecting her love of the Australian bush, she was memeber of The Field Naturalists Club of Victora, which was formed in 1880 for the purpose of exploring natural history through excursions into the bush. In 1891, to encourage this interest among school children, prizes were offered for certain collections. Sutherland’s young field naturalists remind us of the adventurous Woolcot children of Ethel Turner’s classic novel for children Seven Little Australians (1894).
- Subjects (general)
- Landscapes Nature
- Subjects (specific)
- blue (colour) children (people by age group) diffusion green (colour) play (recreation) ponds (water) reddish brown trees
- Movements
- Australian Impressionism
- Frame
- Original, attributed to John Thallon, Melbourne
