(b Sydney, 16 June 1858; d Sydney, 30 April 1930). Australian painter. He was sent to England in 1879 as an apprentice engineer in Lincoln, where he began painting in watercolour. The inheritance that followed his father's death enabled him to become a student at the Slade School of Fine Art, London (1881-3). He then trained at the Atelier Cormon, Paris (1885-7), where he formed one of the most important artistic friendships of his life with Vincent van Gogh, commemorated by the portrait of Vincent van Gogh (1886; Amsterdam, Rijksmus. van Gogh).

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