Charcoal burners | |
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Artist | Tom Roberts |
Year | 1886 |
Medium | oil on canvas |
Dimensions | 61.4 cm × 92.3 cm (24.2 in × 36.3 in) |
Location | Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat |
Charcoal burners (previously known as Wood splitters) is a 1886 painting by the Australian artist Tom Roberts. [1] The painting depicts three rural labourers "splitting and stacking timber for the preparation of charcoal". [1] Roberts, influenced by the Barbizon school and Jules Bastien-Lepage, would later return to the theme of rural men working in his works A break away! and Shearing the Rams. [1]
Roberts painted the picture from sketches made at a camp he made with Frederick McCubbin at Box Hill, then a rural locality east of Melbourne. [1]
The painting was acquired by the Art Gallery of Ballarat in 1961. [1]
The work was stolen from the gallery in 1978. A ransom was paid the following year for the safe recovery of the painting from a park in Sydney. [2]
Charcoal burners | |
---|---|
Artist | Tom Roberts |
Year | 1886 |
Medium | oil on canvas |
Dimensions | 61.4 cm × 92.3 cm (24.2 in × 36.3 in) |
Location | Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat |
Charcoal burners (previously known as Wood splitters) is a 1886 painting by the Australian artist Tom Roberts. [1] The painting depicts three rural labourers "splitting and stacking timber for the preparation of charcoal". [1] Roberts, influenced by the Barbizon school and Jules Bastien-Lepage, would later return to the theme of rural men working in his works A break away! and Shearing the Rams. [1]
Roberts painted the picture from sketches made at a camp he made with Frederick McCubbin at Box Hill, then a rural locality east of Melbourne. [1]
The painting was acquired by the Art Gallery of Ballarat in 1961. [1]
The work was stolen from the gallery in 1978. A ransom was paid the following year for the safe recovery of the painting from a park in Sydney. [2]