Tea Trees near Cape Schanck Victoria

Tranquil 1865 early evening view of Cape Schanck, overlooking the Bass Strait, south of Melbourne, Australia, by German artist and member of the... more

by Eugene von Guerard

Title

Tea Trees near Cape Schanck Victoria

Artist

Eugene von Guerard

Medium

Painting - Print On Paper

Description

Tranquil 1865 early evening view of Cape Schanck, overlooking the Bass Strait, south of Melbourne, Australia, by German artist and member of the Dusseldorf School of painters Eugene von Guerard (1811-1901). Von Guerard spent several decades in Australia, where he became one of the country's most successful landscape painters. The precision and color he brought to his paintings are exceptional, and although his work eventually fell out of favor and he (sadly) died in poverty in Chelsea, London, a re-appreciation of his importance has long been underway, and his paintings now hang in several of Australia's most prestigious galleries, and rightly so.

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June 3rd, 2016