Mount Fyans homestead

Date: 1869
Medium: oil on canvas
Location: National Gallery of Australia
Dimensions: 58,6 x 95,3 cm

Buvelot painted picture Mount Fyans homestead in 1869. Prevailing color of this fine art print is green and its shape is long. Original size is 58,6 x 95,3 cm. This art piece is located in National Gallery of Australia. This image is printed on demand - you can choose material, size and finishing.

Abram-Louis Buvelot (1814-1888), a Swiss landscape artist from the Realism period of the city Vaud. Buvelot received his art education at a school in Lausanne. For a while, he stayed in Paris, but in 1835, he left after a few months to travel to Brazil to his uncle, who owned a coffee plantation. In Rio de Janeiro, the artist exhibited two paintings of landscapes, which immediately gained attention and appreciation. Every year, he repeatedly contributed his work to this exhibition, for which he earned a gold medal in 1846 and the title of the Knight of the Order of the Rose. Before returning to Europe in 1852, he created a series of 18 images of different views of Rio de Janeiro. In Europe, however, he did not experience such fame. Vainly, he tried several times to employ himself as a photographer. Because money that his family is so urgently needed was running out, he went to Calcutta. Even here, however, he failed. He left his first wife and went to Melbourne. He began to paint landscapes ( Afternoon in Templestowe Between Tallarookem and Yea), and soon he was a well-known and popular artist. He began teaching externally at the National Gallery of Victoria. However, he was never accepted as its member. Six years after his death in 1888, the gallery was renamed the Buvelot Gallery in his honour.