The Buonarotti Club was a bohemian artists' society in Melbourne, Australia between 1883 and 1887, associated with Heidelberg School of painters.
National Gallery School students who were members of the Buonarotti Club: Back L-R: J Longstaff, L Jones, A Colquhon, E Phillips Fox, F McCubbin 2nd row: T. St George Tucker, J Gibbs, D Davies, F Williams. Front: A Alston
William Pitt, architect (c.1881) Melbourne Coffee Palace, 89 Bourke Street, Melbourne, architectural drawing
Jules Joseph Lefebvre (1875) Chloé. Oil on canvas, 260 cm × 139 cm (100 in × 55 in), Young and Jackson Hotel, Melbourne
Original copy of "The Buonarotti" Ladies Night guest entry card made out to Miss (Iso) Rae. Mason Firth & McCutcheon. Printers, Melbourne 1885. Private Collection
The Heidelberg School was an Australian art movement of the late 19th century. It has been described as Australian impressionism.
Arthur Streeton, Golden Summer, Eaglemont, 1889
Tom Roberts, Shearing the Rams, 1890
Buxton's Rooms, Swanston Street, site of the 9 by 5 Impression Exhibition
The 9 by 5 catalogue, designed by Conder, shows a female as an allegory of art being unraveled from the bandages of 'Convention'. The exhibition's theme of transience is also symbolised by falling blossoms and a dragonfly, which in folklore lives only one day.