Some paintings and works of art at the Queensland Art Gallery

European and Australian paintings since the 19th century:

• Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness by Henry George Hewitt (1893)
  • The title is taken from John Keats' poem To Autumn (1819)


• Panorama of Brisbane by J. A. Clarke (1880)


• Gleaners by Charles Martin Hardie (1883)




• Evicted by Blandford Fletcher (1887)
  • 'Evicted' presents the narrative of a dispossessed widow and her child, forced to leave their home while the top-hatted bailiff and the village look on. Fletcher's choice of an overcast autumn day heightens the sense of loss and sadness. The leaves littering the ground and the child's broken toy add to the drama." (Source: Queensland Art Gallery)


• Aurora by Edward Burne-Jones (1896)


• Weary by Nicholas Chevalier (1898)



• Under the jacaranda tree by Godfrey Rivers (1903)
  • "Under the jacaranda 1903 has been one of the best loved works in the Queensland Art Gallery since it entered the Collection in 1903. Godfrey Rivers completed the painting 13 years after he arrived in Australia from the United Kingdom.
    The work depicts Rivers and his wife, Selina, taking tea under the shade of a jacaranda tree in full bloom. The tree was a landmark in Brisbane's Botanic Gardens, which adjoined the grounds of the Brisbane Technical College where Rivers taught from 1891 to 1915.
    It was almost certainly the first jacaranda to be grown in Australia. Walter Hill, the Gardens' Superintendent, planted it in 1864. It remained in the Gardens until 1979, when it was blown over during a cyclone -- part of the trunk is now located at the offices of the Mt Coot-tha Botanic Gardens.
    With jacarandas now growing in most Brisbane suburbs, many the progeny of this first tree, Under the jacaranda may be considered a quintessential image of this city." (Source: Queensland Art Gallery)


• The dancer by Sam Atyeo (1937)