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
The Box Hill artists' camp was a site in Box Hill, Victoria, Australia favoured by a group of plein air painters in the mid to late 1880s who later became associated with the Heidelberg School art movement, named after Heidelberg, the site of another one of their camps.
Tom Roberts, The Artists' Camp, 1886, National Gallery of Victoria
Arthur Streeton, June evening, Box Hill, 1887, Queensland Art Gallery
Frederick McCubbin, Down on His Luck, 1889, Art Gallery of Western Australia
Tom Roberts, Winter morning after rain, Gardiner's Creek, 1885, Art Gallery of South Australia