Tom Roberts will paint in Victoria throughout…

Tom Roberts will paint in Victoria throughout the 1880s and 1890s, in his studio at the famous studio complex of Grosvenor Chambers at 9 Collins Street in Melbourne, and at a number of artists' camps and visits around the colony.

Born in Dorchester, Dorset, England, where his parents were newspaper editors, Roberts had migrated with his family to Australia in 1869.

Settling in Collingwood, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, he had worked as a photographer's assistant through the 1870s while studying art at night under Buvelot and befriending others who ware to become prominent artists, notably Frederick McCubbin.

He had returned to England for three years of full-time art study at the Royal Academy Schools from 1881 to 1884.