A lord of the bush
1908
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Measurements
- 135.4 × 105.3 cm
- Place/s of Execution
- Hahndorf, South Australia
- Inscription
- inscribed in brown paint l.r.: HANS HEYSEN / 1908
- Accession Number
- 376-2
- Department
- Australian Painting
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1908
© Hans Heysen Estate/Licensed by Copyright Agency, Australia
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of The Vizard Foundation - Gallery location
- Not on display
- About this work
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By the turn of the century, the Australian bush had become an object for nostalgia, with most people living in urban centres. In 1908 Hans Heysen staged an enormously successful exhibition in Melbourne, which established his reputation. Over the next four decades, Heysen was regarded as Australia’s pre-eminent landscape painter.
- Subjects (general)
- Landscapes
- Subjects (specific)
- cattle clearings (landforms) clouds Eucalyptus (genus) men (male humans) trees wooded landscapes
