George Hart-Taylor: rediscovering an important Queensland landscape painter, Dianne Byrne
Abstract:
Some hold the view that, except for Conrad Martens and Isaac Walter Jenner, no accomplished artists found anything to interest them in the wilder regions of colonial Queensland. Where are the grand landscape paintings to rival those of John Glover or Eugene von Guérard? In fact, several accomplished but now forgotten artists worked in the colony in the second half of the 19th century, clearly attracted by the expansive landscape, the dramatic mountain peaks, and the impact that the new settlers were making. Dianne Byrne reveals the story of one of those artists, George Hart-Taylor (1853–1940), whose works are being re-discovered.
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