It is beginning to be recognised that the esteem given the art of the ‘Heidelberg School’ has overshadowed, if not obscured, much significant Australian art of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Images of Australian women, for example, were as numerous as those of the landscape but have received much less attention from critics and historians, unless associated in some way with the landscape tradition. The focus of this project is on the work of Lindsay Bernard Hall and those painters of Australian women who were once his students at the National Gallery School of Melbourne. Although many of these have received the recognition they deserve in recent years, others remain relatively unknown, the greater part of their work in private hands and their stories distorted, obscured or lost with the passage of time. I would welcome any information about these artists and their background, and also the chance to see privately held works. Please browse this site for my main areas of interest.