Louis Buvelot

Louis Buvelot
Portrait of Louis Buvelot by Julian Ashton, 1880
Born
Abram-Louis Buvelot

3 March 1814
Morges, Vaud, Switzerland
Died30 May 1888(1888-05-30) (aged 74)
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Resting place
Kew Cemetery
Known forLandscape painting
MovementPlein air
Spouses
  • Marie-Félicité Lalouette (born 1816)
  • Caroline-Julie Beguin (1825–1902)
AwardsOrder of the Rose

Abram-Louis "Louis" Buvelot (French pronunciation: [lwi byvlo]; 3 March 1814 – 30 May 1888)[1][2] was a Swiss landscape painter who lived 17 years in Brazil, and following 5 years back in Switzerland, stayed 23 years in Australia, where he influenced the Heidelberg School of painters.[3]

Biography

Buvelot was born on 3 March 1814 in Morges, Vaud, Switzerland,[1] second son of François Simeon Buvelot, postal official, and his wife Jeanne-Louise née Heizer, a school teacher.[4]

Buvelot got a job teaching art at a private school in Switzerland. Buvelot's uncle had a plantation in Brazil.[4] Buvelot lived in Brazil for four years in Bahia and Rio.[1] He returned to Switzerland in 1852.[4] He left his family in La Chaux-de-Fonds and sailed from Liverpool bound for Melbourne, Australia in 1864 accompanied by Caroline-Julie Beguin, a teacher.

Buvelot moved to Melbourne in 1865 for his health.[4] He worked as a photographer for time before settling in Fitzroy.[4]

Louis Buvelot, c.1883

Buvelot died at his home on George St, Fitzroy on 30 May 1888.[1] He was 75.[1] He was buried at the Boroondara Cemetery, where a large monument was erected in his memory. Buvelot's widow, also an artist, died in 1902. The couple had no children.[1]

Buvelot is best known for his great contribution to Australian art. His works, mostly oil landscapes, are quite well regarded, but perhaps his impact was even greater as a tutor of several members of the Heidelberg School, including Arthur Streeton, who named Buvelot's 1866 painting Summer Evening Near Templestowe the "first fine landscape painted in Victoria".[5] His enthusiasm for plein air painting (that is, painting directly in the open air) was a key characteristic of those artists' work.

Awards and honours

  • Silver medal at an exhibition in Bern in 1856
  • Two paintings purchased by the National Gallery of Victoria in 1869
  • Gold medals at Melbourne exhibitions in 1873
  • Silver medal at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876
  • Gold medals at Melbourne exhibitions in 1880 and 1884
  • A gallery at the NGV is named for him.[4]

Collections

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Death of M. Louis Buvelot". The Argus. 31 May 1888. Retrieved 26 May 2024.
  2. ↑ Gray, Jocelyn (1969). "Abram-Louis Buvelot (1814–1888)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. 3.
  3. ↑ "Death of M. Buvelot". The Age. 1 June 1888. Retrieved 26 May 2024.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Serle, Percival (1949). "Buzacott, Charles Hardie (1835-1918), Journalist and Politician". Dictionary of Australian Biography. Angus and Robertson.
  5. ↑ Streeton, Arthur (16 October 1934). Eaglemont in the Eighties: Beginnings of Art in Australia. The Argus.
  6. ↑ "NGV Collection: Louis Buvelot". National Gallery of Victoria. Retrieved 18 September 2021.
  7. ↑ "Louis Abram BUVELOT". Art Gallery WA Collection Online. Retrieved 18 September 2021.
  8. ↑ "Geelong Gallery | Geelong Gallery". collections.geelonggallery.org.au. Retrieved 18 September 2021.
  9. ↑ "Louis Buvelot (b.1814, d.1888)". Castlemaine Art Museum Collection Online. Retrieved 18 September 2021.

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