All the oil paintings of Julian Ashton

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ID	Image	Painting(From A to Z)	Details
75470		A Waterhole on the Hawkesbury	A Waterhole on the Hawkesbury (1885, oil on canvas, 59.0 x 95.0 cm sheet) by Julian Ashton (1851-1942). cjr
77351		A Waterhole on the Hawkesbury	1885, oil on canvas, 59.0 x 95.0 cm sheet) by Julian Ashton (1851?C1942). cyf
75393		Evening, Merri Creek	Evening, Merri Creek (1882, oil-on-canvas, 91.5 x 122.0 cm) by Julian Ashton (1851-1942). cjr
32750		Mosman Ferry 1888	mk80 Watercolour over traces of pancil 32.6x41.8cm
77496		Prospector	(1889, oil on canvas on hardboard, 213.4 x 116.9 cm sheet) by Julian Ashton (1851?C1942). cyf
42142		Study of a Woman-s head	mk167 1890s Oil
75725		The Prospector	The Prospector (1889, oil on canvas on hardboard, 213.4 x 116.9 cm sheet) by Julian Ashton (1851?C1942). cjr
32751		View of Narth Head,Sydney Harbour 1888	mk80 watercolour 35.4x24.7cm

Julian Ashton
Australian Painter, 1851-1942 was an Australian artist and teacher, known for his support of the Heidelberg School and for his influential art school in Sydney. Ashton was born in Addlestone, Surrey, England and arrived in Australia in 1878 with a background in the contemporary French realism of the Barbizon School, which emphasised painting en plein air (i.e. direct from nature, as opposed to studio-based painting), and which laid the basis for the Impressionist movement. As a trustee of the Art Gallery of New South Wales he championed emerging Australian artists of the Australian Impressionist or Heidelberg School, and the Gallery's decision to collect these works owes much to his influence. According to James Gleeson, Ashton's oil paintings, much-admired in his own lifetime,