About the Author

Ann Galbally studied at Melbourne University and at the Courtauld Institute, London. She was Associate Professor in art history at Melbourne University until 2003 and now writes full time. Her publications include monographs on Arthur Streeton, Frederick McCubbin and John Peter Russell; The Collections of the National Gallery of Victoria (1987); Letters from Smike- The correspondence of Arthur Streeton (with Anne Gray) (1989), and biographies Redmond Barry- An Anglo-Irish Australian (1995) and Charles Conder- The last bohemian, which won The Age Non-Fiction Book of the Year in 2003.