2006

Purchased from Andrew Lloyd Webber through the Geelong Art Gallery Foundation with the generous support of the Victorian Government, the Australian Government, the City of Greater Geelong and numerous community and other donors, Eugene von Guérard’s View of Geelong (1856) entered the permanent collection in 2006.

The most important work acquired since Frederick McCubbin’s A bush burial (1890) in 1900, View of Geelong represents the large expanse of pastoral land and remnant bush country surrounding Geelong in 1856. In the immediate foreground a picturesque road winds around the Barwon, and is shadowed by gums, acacias, and she-oaks.