The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Depicts the entrance to the St Quentin tunnel taking the canal through the hill at Bellicourt near the Hindenburg Line on the Western Front.
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.
On the verso is the left side of a sketch of Bellicourt Tunnel which appears to be a preliminary sketch for the large painting ART12437 'Bellicourt tunnel'. By September 1918, allied forces had pushe
Double leaf sketch of Bellicourt Tunnel, likely to be a preliminary sketch for the large painting ART12437 'Bellicourt tunnel'. By September 1918, allied forces had pushed the Germans back to the Hin
Depicts a view of Mont St Quentin, with lines of trenches visible on the hillside. Arthur Streeton is best known as one of the painters of the Heidelberg School in Melbourne in the late nineteenth ce
Depicts a pencil sketch of the road to Mont St Quentin, with a supply dump in the foreground, the road and trees in the mid ground and the village of Mont St Quentin in the background. Arthur Streeton
View across the Somme River, with Mont St Quentin in background; Mont St Quentin, Hindenburg Line, Western Front. Arthur Streeton is best known as one of the painters of the Heidelberg School in Melb
Depicts a view of the damaged entrance to the Citadel at Peronne, with an Albion truck parked at the entrance. Arthur Streeton is best known as one of the painters of the Heidelberg School in Melbour
Depicts a view of Mont St Quentin from Peronne, with civilian and military buildings visible, the ruins of a church and other buildings and artillery in the right foreground. Arthur Streeton is best k
Depicts a view of the western entrance to the town of Villers-Bretonneux, with damaged buildings and trees, as observed by the artist while in France during the First World War. Arthur Streeton is b