The Big Picture (painting)
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The Opening of the First Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia by H.R.H. The Duke of Cornwall and York, May 9, 1901, more commonly known in Australia as The Big Picture, is a 1903 painting by the Australian artist Tom Roberts. The painting, measuring 304.5 by 509.2 centimetres, or roughly 10 by 17 feet, depicts the opening of the first Parliament of Australia at the Royal Exhibition Building in Melbourne on 9 May 1901.
Roberts working on the painting at the Royal Exhibition Building
Tom Roberts
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Thomas William Roberts was an English-born Australian artist and a key member of the Heidelberg School art movement, also known as Australian impressionism.
Allegro con brio: Bourke Street west, 1885, Roberts' first major work after returning to Australia
When the quiet east flushes faintly at the sun's last look (1887), painted at the Box Hill artists' camp
Going home (1889), exhibited at the 9 by 5 Impression Exhibition