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Eugene Von Guerard was the son of an artist in the employ of Francis I of Austria.
He studied in Rome and there became attached to an expatriate group of German
artists and writers, the Nazarenes, who were a romantic, religious, revivalist sect.
The Nazarenes proposed an art that should be faithful, innocent, sensitive and
thoughtful, and that an artist should live a life that is pure and noble.
Von Guerard's hard-working and earnest life was well in keeping with the tenets
of this reactionary group.
Von Guerard began his Australian life in the goldfields but soon realised that his riches were to be found in his
own talents and it wasn't long before he was undertaking lucrative commissions recording the dwellings and
properties of rich landowners. He also toured Australia in pursuit of the picturesque.
Such was his fame that he was appointed the first head of the National Gallery School of Victoria in 1870
where he was to influence the training of artists for the next 11 years.
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