The Artists

Elizabeth Parsons

ELIZABETH PARSONS
BOX HILL LANDSCAPE, 1885

ELIZABETH PARSONS
Born England 1831, arrived Australia 1870, died 1897

BOX HILL LANDSCAPE, 1885
watercolour on paper, 19 x 29.5 cm
Private Collection

Not long after this work was painted, Tom Roberts, Frederick McCubbin and Louis Abrahams, established their Artists' Camp on Houston's property, on the rise above his bark hut, close to Damper Creek.

Today Damper Creek is known as Gardiner's Creek, and the open rolling hillsides depicted in this work, with only one or two homesteads, are now home to the busy suburb of Box Hill.

Further information:
Tom Roberts - The Artists' Camp, c. 1886

Left: Arthur Streeton - Above Us The Great Grave Sky, 1890
Collection: National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.