The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Depicts a dressing station situated in a tunnel under the town of Villers-Bretonneux, with a soldier on a stretcher being attended to and various medical and personal equipment around the station.
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 the entrance to a dressing station situated in a tunnel under a hill near Villers-Bretonneux, the entrance is sandbagged, an ambulance is outside with stretcher bearers carrying wounded on str
Depicts the chateau at Villers-Bretonneux with the fish pond in the foreground and ruins in the rear. Arthur Streeton is best known as one of the painters of the Heidelberg School in Melbourne in the
Depicts a view of a deserted street in the town of Villers Bretonneux. The buildings on either side of the street are in ruins with smoke billowing up in the rear, and debris in the foreground of barb
Depicts the advanced dressing station at Middle Harbour, with a wall protected by sandbags and hessian camouflage screening above, set into slope of hill. Arthur Streeton is best known as one of the
Depicts the dressing station of the 6th Australian Field Ambulance in May 1918 amongst farm buildings belonging to the Smith family. Arthur Streeton is best known as one of the painters of the Heidel
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