Sir Arthur Ernest Streeton (8 April 1867 – 1 September 1943) was an Australian

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painter and a leading member of the

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, also known as

Australian Impressionism The Heidelberg School was an Australian art movement of the late 19th century. It has been described as Australian impressionism. Melbourne art critic Sidney Dickinson coined the term in an 1891 review of works by Arthur Streeton and Walter ...

Early life

Streeton was born in Mount Moriac, Victoria, south-west of

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, on 8 April 1867, the fourth child of Charles Henry and Mary (née Johnson) Streeton. His family moved to the

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suburb of

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in 1874. His parents were English migrants who had met on their voyage to Australia in 1854."Streeton, Sir Arthur Ernest (1867–1943),"
''Australian Dictionary of Biography Online'' In 1882, Streeton commenced art studies with

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at the

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.Reid, John B. (1977). ''Australian Artists at War: Compiled from the Australian War Memorial Collection.'' Volume 1, p. 16. In 1885, Streeton exhibited works for the first time with the Victorian Academy of Art. He found employment as an apprentice lithographer under Charles Troedel.Galbally, Ann E. Galbally. (1990)
"Streeton, Sir Arthur Ernest (1867–1943),"
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Career

During the summer of 1886–87, Streeton, aged nineteen, first befriended

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and

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while painting ''en plein air'' at

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. The pair greatly admired Streeton's work and invited him to join them at artists' camps they had established in both Mentone and Box Hill. They were later joined by

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, beginning a two-year period of close creative companionship, and forming the core group of what became known as the

movement, later also called Australian impressionism. Streeton's work rapidly improved during this period, and by 1888 he was widely considered one of Victoria's most gifted young painters. Roberts Streeton

Streeton was exhibiting and perhaps painting in the studio of his friend Roberts at

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, Collins Street by May 1888.

Eaglemont camp, Heidelberg

In the summer drought of 1888, Streeton travelled by train to the attractive agricultural and grazing suburb of

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, 11 km north-east of Melbourne's city centre. He intended to walk the remaining distance to the site where

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painted his 1866 work ''Summer afternoon near Templestowe'', which Streeton considered "the first fine landscape painted in Victoria".Streeton, Arthur (16 October 1934)
"Eaglemont in the Eighties: Beginnings of Art in Australia"
'' The Argus''. On the return journey to Heidelberg, wet canvas in hand, Streeton met Charles Davies, brother-in-law of friend and fellow ''plein air'' painter David Davies. Charles gave him "artistic possession" of an abandoned homestead atop the summit of Mount Eagle estate, offering spectacular views across the

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to the

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. For Streeton, Eaglemont (as it became known) was the ideal working environment—a reasonably isolated rural location accessible by public transport. The house itself could be seen by visitors as they arrived at

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. Streeton spent the first few nights at Eaglemont alone with the estate's tenant farmer Jack Whelan (who appears in Streeton's "pioneer" painting ''The selector's hut (Whelan on the log)'', 1890), and slept upon the floor, the rooms being bare of furniture. Of his first few nights at the house, Streeton said it was "creaking and ghostly. A long dark corridor seemed full of past visions, and out of doors a blurred rich blackness against the sharp brilliance of the

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... But tobacco and wine weighed healthily against the darkness". He descended the hill daily to Heidelberg village for meals before jaunting into the bush with a

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of milk and

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of paints and canvases. The first artists to paint with Streeton at Eaglemont were the National Gallery students Aby Altson and

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, followed by John Mather and

Walter Withers Walter Herbert Withers (22 October 1854 – 13 October 1914) was an English-born Australian landscape artist and a member of the Heidelberg School of Australian impressionists. Biography Withers was born on 22 October 1854, at Handsworth ...

. Like Streeton, Withers painted from nature amidst suburban bush around Melbourne, employing earthy colours with loose, impressionistic brushstrokes. By the end of 1888, he became a weekend visitor to the camp. About the same time, Streeton met the artist

, who travelled down from Sydney in October 1888 at the invitation of

. One year Streeton's junior, Conder was already a committed ''plein airist'', having been influenced by the painterly techniques of expatriate impressionist Girolamo Nerli. Conder and Roberts joined Streeton at Eaglemont in January 1889 and helped make some modest improvements to the house. Despite austere living conditions, Streeton felt content: "Surrounded by the loveliness of the new landscape, with heat, drought, and flies, and hard pressed for the necessaries of life, we worked hard, and were a happy trio." Streeton and Conder quickly became friends and influenced one another's art. Their shared love of

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n poet

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's lyrical verse is revealed in the titles of some of their Eaglemont paintings, including Streeton's romantic

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work ''Above us the great grave sky'' (1890, taken from Gordon's poem "Doubtful Dreams"). Later, critics would describe some of the pair's Eaglemont paintings as companion pieces, as both artists often painted the same views and subjects using a high-keyed "gold and blue" palette, which Streeton considered "nature's scheme of colour in Australia". Two of Streeton's best-known works were painted during this period—'' Golden Summer, Eaglemont'' (1889) and ''Still glides the stream, and shall for ever glide'' (1890)—each a sunlit pastoral scene of golden-paddocked plains stretching to the distant blue Corhanwarrabul. In 1891, Arthur Merric and Emma Minnie of the Boyd artistic dynasty took ''Golden Summer, Eaglemont'' to Europe where it became the first painting by an Australian-born artist to be exhibited at the

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, London, and was awarded a ''Mention honourable'' at the 1892

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Sydney and travels inland

On 2 June 1890, in the wake of an economic depression in Melbourne, Streeton sailed to Sydney, and initially stayed there with his sister in the suburb of Summer Hill. He soon relocated to

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, a ''plein air'' artists' camp on Sydney Harbour, where he painted many views of his natural surroundings and was visited by a number of artists, including

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and

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, who stayed at the camp for extended periods.

later joined him also, continuing their artistic friendship. From 1891, Streeton began travelling widely in rural New South Wales. As well as painting scenes of Sydney Harbour and Coogee, and urban scenes of Sydney, it was during the early to mid-1890s that he painted some of his major rural landscapes, including the ''

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'' series and '''Fire's on. Sydney Harbour inspired many of Streeton's most poetic Symbolist paintings, a number of which infuse the Australian landscape with mythological subjects. The city also spurred his interest in the decorative arts as he painted on fans, furniture, musical instruments and other objects. The influence of Japanese art, such as ''

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'' (hung scrolls), is evidenced in the extreme vertical formats and compositional elements he favoured around this time. In 1893, Streeton wrote in Sydney's ''Daily Telegraph'' criticising a proposal by a mining company to develop a colliery on the shores of Sydney Harbor, which would necessitate the cutting down of a great many gum trees. His letter, which came to be known as "Streeton's shriek", read in part: The letter helped raise public alarm over the proposal, and in 1895, Streeton painted ''Cremorne pastoral'', his largest harbour composition, as "an elegiac image of what ebelieved would be lost" if the project went head. When it went on exhibition later that year, the Art Gallery of New South Wales acquired the work and publicly endorsed Streeton's protests. The government, in the face of mounting backlash, was forced to abandon the mining project. ''Cremorne pastorals status as an environmental protest painting is considered groundbreaking in Australian art history. File:Arthur Streeton McMahon's Point Ferry 1890.jpg, ''McMahon's Point Ferry'', 1890, private collection File:Arthur Streeton - Fire's on - Google Art Project.jpg, '' Fire's on'', 1891, Art Gallery of New South Wales File:Arthur Streeton Oblivion.jpeg, ''Oblivion'', 1892, private collection File:Arthur Streeton - Cremorne pastoral - Google Art Project.jpg, ''Cremorne pastoral'', 1895, Art Gallery of New South Wales

Overseas and life in England

Arthur Streeton - Malham Cove - Google Art Project

In 1897 Streeton sailed for London on the ''Polynesian'', stopping at

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before continuing on via Cairo and

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. He held an exhibition at the

in 1900 and became a member of the

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in 1903. Although he had developed a considerable reputation in Australia, he failed to achieve the same success in England. His trips to London were financed by the sales of his paintings at home in Australia. His time in England reinforced a strong sense of patriotism towards the

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and, like many, anticipated the coming war with Germany with some enthusiasm. In 1906, Streeton returned to Australia and completed some paintings at

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in February 1907 while staying with his patrons the Pinschofs at Hohe Warte. These included the notable five feet by three feet Australia Felix (a view from Mt. Toorong) and a number of other smaller paintings. Streeton returned to London in October. He married Esther Leonora Clench, a Canadian violinist, in 1908 and paintings done during their honeymoon in Venice in September that year, including '' The Grand Canal'', were exhibited in Australia in July 1909 as "Arthur Streeton's Venice". In Australia again in April 1914 he held exhibitions in Sydney and Melbourne and went back to England in early 1915.

War artist

Along with other members of the

, including

, he joined the

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(

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) at the age of 48. He worked at the 3rd London General Hospital in

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and reached the rank of

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Streeton was made an Australian Official War Artist with the Australian Imperial Force, holding the rank of Honorary Lieutenant, and he travelled to France on 14 May 1918 and was attached to the 2nd Division, receiving his movement order on 8 May 1918. He worked in France, with a break in August, until October 1918. Expected by the Commonwealth to produce sketches and drawings that were "descriptive", Streeton concentrated on the landscape of the scenes of war and did not attempt to convey the human suffering. Unlike more famous

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ists who depicted the definitive moments of battle, Streeton produced "military still life", capturing the everyday moments of the war. Streeton explained what was at that time an unconventional point of view – a perspective which was based in experience: Two paintings from this period, ''Villers Bretonneux'' (1918) and ''Boulogne'' (1918), are in the collection of the

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Later years

After the war, Streeton resumed painting in the

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and

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. Streeton built a house on five acres (20,000m²) at

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in the Dandenongs where he continued to paint, though in 1936 he complained that it 'tends to interfere with the gardening,' and only produced art for 'a couple of months in the year,' though he was then preparing a Sydney exhibition in time for his 70th birthday. Streeton won the

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in 1928 with ''Afternoon Light, Goulburn Valley''. He was an

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for '' The Argus'' from 1929 to 1935 and in 1937 was

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ed for services to the arts. Streeton died in September 1943 and is buried at

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cemetery.

Legacy

Streeton Drive, a main thoroughfare in

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is named after Sir Arthur, as is Streeton Primary School, in the Melbourne suburb of Yallambie. There is also a memorial for Streeton just outside Geelong, Victoria. In 2008, three expatriate Australian classical musicians living in Geneva, Switzerland founded a

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they named the Streeton Trio after the painter. Streeton's works appear in many major Australian galleries and museums, including the

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and state galleries, and the

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. In September 2015, Streeton's Coogee clifftop landscape '' Blue Pacific'' (1890) became the first painting by an Australian artist, and only the second painting by a Western artist outside Europe, to hang in the permanent collection of the

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, London. It sits alongside major impressionist works by

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and

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Prices

Streeton's paintings are amongst the most collectible of Australian artists and attracted high prices during his lifetime. ''Golden Summer, Eaglemont'' sold for around 1000

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in 1924 and in 1995 it was bought in a private sale by the

for A$3.5 million, both times setting a sales record for an Australian painting. In 1985, ''Settler's Camp'' sold at auction for A$800,000 and this remained the record auction price for Streeton's work until 23 May 2005, when his 1890 painting, ''Sunlight Sweet, Coogee'', was sold for A$2.04 million (A$1.853 million before tax), becoming only the second painting by an Australian artist to exceed the A$2 million mark at auction (after

's 1892 work ''Bush Idyll'', which sold for A$2.3 million in 1998). The painting was part of the

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collection and was sold at auction by

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. That record was eclipsed when, on 21 April 2021, Streeton's '' The Grand Canal'' (1908) was auctioned in

for A$3.068 million.

Gallery

Arthur Streeton - At Templestowe - Google Art Project.jpg, ''At Templestowe'', 1889, Art Gallery of South Australia File:Sunlight Sweet Coogee Arthur Streeton.jpg, ''Sunlight Sweet, Coogee'', 1890, private collection File:Arthur Streeton Point Wharf 1893.jpg, ''The Point Wharf, Mosman Bay'', 1893, National Gallery of Australia File:Arthur Streeton Redfern railway station.jpg, ''The Railway Station, Redfern'', 1893, Art Gallery of New South Wales File:Ariadne 1898 by Arthur Streeton.jpg, ''Ariadne'', 1895, National Gallery of Australia File:Arthur Streeton - Manly Beach (1895).JPG, ''Manly Beach'', 1895, Bendigo Art Gallery File:Arthur Streeton - The spirit of the drought - Google Art Project.jpg, ''The Spirit of the Drought'', 1895, National Gallery of Australia File:Arthur Streeton Purple 1896.jpg, ''‘ The purple noon's transparent might’'', 1896, National Gallery of Victoria File:The Path to Podge Newton's.jpg, ''The Path to Podge Newton's'', 1895, private collection File:Streeton From My Camp 1896.jpg, ''From My Camp'', 1896, Art Gallery of New South Wales File:Arthur Streeton - (House builders, Cairo) - Google Art Project.jpg, ''House builders, Cairo'', 1897, National Gallery of Australia

References

External links

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