Tom
ROBERTS
England
1856
–
Kallista
1931 AD
Australia from 1869; England, Europe 1881- 85, 1903-23
62.2 (h) x 28.3 (w) cm
signed and dated l.l. 'Tom Roberts / - Sydney 1896' Australian War Memorial, Canberra Purchased 1974
Roberts painted this portrait, and its companion portraits of British military commander Major-General Hutton and an unnamed soldier, as mementoes for Hutton before his departure for England in 1896. They were painted at Victoria Barracks, Paddington, Sydney.
