Artist
Julian Ashton
Australian, 1851–1942
Julian Ashton was an Australian Heidelberg School artist. 9 works are cataloged here, principally at Art Gallery of New South Wales. Julian Ashton was born in Addlestone.
Julian Rossi Ashton (27 January 1851 – 27 April 1942) was an English-born Australian artist and teacher. He is best known for founding the Julian Ashton Art School in Sydney and encouraging Australian painters to capture local life and scenery en plein air, greatly influencing the impressionist Heidelberg School movement. He was a principal organiser of the 1898 Exhibition of Australian Art in London, the first major exhibition of Australian art internationally.
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