EUGENE VON GUERARD (1811-1901)
East Gippsland Alps :
Mount Hotham (1,862 m- 6,109 ft)
Mount Hotham (1,862 m- 6,109 ft)
Mount Buffalo (1,723 m -5,653 ft)
The Strzelecki Ranges / Mount Tassie (740 m -2,430 ft)
Australia (Victoria)
In Gippsland Alps from Bushy Park on the River Avon, or
Panoramic view of Mr Angus McMillan's station, Bushy Park, Gippsland, Victoria
oil painting panorama on two canvas, each 361 mm x 941 mm, 1861
National Gallery of Australia
About the panorama
As far as it is accurate - which is doubtful as it covers such a large area - this panorama was painted from Bushy Park, a town in Victoria, Australia, located north of Maffra, in the Shire of Wellington.
It would include several East Gippsland mountains possibly visible from this point of view, including Mount Hothtam and Mount Buffalo.
The second part of the panorama describes lower mountains as could be The Strzelecki Ranges, a set of low mountain located in the West Gippsland region of the Australian state of Victoria.
Mount Hotham (1,862 m- 6,109 ft) is a mountain in the Victorian Alps of the Great Dividing Range, located in the Australian state of Victoria. The mountain is located approximately 357 kms (222 mi) north east of Melbourne, 746 kms (464 mi) from Sydney, and 997 kms(620 mi) from Adelaide by road. The nearest major road to mountain is the Great Alpine Road. The mountain is named after Charles Hotham, Governor of Victoria from 1854 to 1855.
The Strzelecki Ranges (740 m -2,430 ft) at its highest point Mount Tassie is a set of low mountain ridges located in the West Gippsland region of the Australian state of Victoria. The Ranges are named after Paweł Edmund Strzelecki, a Polish explorer, who with the assistance of Charley Tarra the small party's Aboriginal guide, led an expedition through this region in 1840.
The painter
Johann Joseph Eugene von Guerard was an Austrian-born artist, active in Australia from 1852 to 1882. Known for his finely detailed landscapes in the tradition of the Düsseldorf school of painting, he is represented in Australia's major public galleries, and is referred to in the country as Eugene von Guerard. In 1852 von Guerard arrived in Victoria, Australia, determined to try his luck on the Victorian goldfields. As a gold-digger he was not very successful, but he did produce a large number of intimate studies of goldfields life, quite different from the deliberately awe-inspiring landscapes for which he was later to become famous. Realizing that there were opportunities for an artist in Australia, he abandoned the diggings and was soon undertaking commissions recording the dwellings and properties of wealthy pastoralists.
By the early 1860s, von Guerard was recognized as the foremost landscape artist in the colonies, touring Southeast Australia and New Zealand in pursuit of the sublime and the picturesque. He is most known for the wilderness paintings produced during this time, which are remarkable for their shadowy lighting and fastidious detail. Indeed, his View of Tower Hill in south-western Victoria was used as a botanical template over a century later when the land, which had been laid waste and polluted by agriculture, was systematically reclaimed, forested with native flora and made a state park. The scientific accuracy of such work has led to a reassessment of von Guerard's approach to wilderness painting, and some historians believe it likely that the landscapist was strongly influenced by the environmental theories of the leading scientist Alexander von Humboldt. Others attribute his 'truthful representation' of nature to the criterion for figure and landscape painting set by the Düsseldorf Academy.
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2019 - Wandering Vertexes...
by Francis Rousseau
