Collections

The NGV is the oldest public art gallery in Australia and holds a collection of great richness and diversity, encompassing all major media of the fine and applied arts, and ranging in date from antiquity to the present day.

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Tom ROBERTS
born Great Britain 1856
arrived Australia 1869
died 1931
Shearing the rams 1888–90
oil on canvas on composition board
122.4 x 183.3 cm
Felton Bequest, 1932
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
4654-3