The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Depicts a view of the L'Hallue valley, with positions of roads and Pont-Noyelles indicated. There are also horses grazing and encampments set up.
Arthur Streeton is best known as one of the painters of the Heidelberg School in Melbourne in the late nineteenth century. His name is linked with Tom Roberts, Charles Conder, and Frederick McCubbin as responsible for developing in Australia an impressionist technique of painting, and depicting scenes that embraced the nationalistic concerns of the last two decades of the nineteenth century. During his lifetime he was acknowledged as the finest painter of the Australian landscape; he was the first Australian painter to be honoured by a retrospective exhibition in his own lifetime; and only the second to be knighted.
In 1918 while based in London, he was appointed by the Australian War Memorial as an official war artist and travelled to France to record the involvement of Australians in the battles taking place along the Somme River. During the period of his employment he produced ten paintings and eighty-six drawings that are held by the Memorial. These were all executed in the years 1918 and 1919. The Memorial later purchased his HMS Renown, Sydney Harbour painted in 1922, and commissioned several large paintings of significant wartime subjects.
Depicts a view of L'Hallue valley, with positions of the villages of Montigny-sur-l'Hallue and Frechencourt indicated, as well as lines of trenches. Arthur Streeton is best known as one of the painte
Depicts the 1st AIF Divisional Train in the L'Hallue Valley with a section of horse lines, a row of general service wagons, and soldiers formed up near the road. Arthur Streeton is best known as one o
Depicts the horses and soldiers of the 1st Australian Imperial Force, 2nd Australian Divisional train, with harnesses and saddlery on rails with two soldiers are cleaning the harnesses and saddles. Ar
Depicts a view of the landscape outside Amiens. Arthur Streeton is best known as one of the painters of the Heidelberg School in Melbourne in the late nineteenth century. His name is linked with Tom R
Depicts a view of the Somme valley from near Corbie. Arthur Streeton is best known as one of the painters of the Heidelberg School in Melbourne in the late nineteenth century. His name is linked with
Depicts a view of Amiens through the Somme Valley from Blangy-Tronville, with buildings in the right mid ground and the Amiens Cathedral spire visible in the distance, observed by the artist while in