Jack and Achilles: a classical source for Benjamin Duterrau’s Native taking a Kangaroo?, David Hansen
Abstract:
Artists in early Australia were usually trained in Britain and Europe in the Classical tradition going back to ancient Greece and Rome. David Hansen explores the possibility that, in the composition of his paintings created in Van Diemen’s Land, Benjamin Duterrau was influenced by Renaissance and Classical models he had seen in London.
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