Abram-Louis "Louis" Buvelot (; 3 March 1814 – 30 May 1888) 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.
Biography
Buvelot was born on 3 March 1814 in Morges, Vaud, Switzerland,
Buvelot got a job teaching art at a private school in Switzerland. Buvelot's uncle had a plantation in Brazil. 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. NGV also holds and his bust by Bertram Mackennal and a portrait in oils by J. C. Waite
- Art Gallery of New South Wales
- Art Gallery of Western Australia
- Art Gallery of Ballarat
- Geelong Gallery
- Castlemaine Art Museum
- Tate Gallery in London
See also
- French Australians
- Australian art