List of paintings by Tom Roberts

This is an incomplete list of the paintings by the Australian painter Tom Roberts. Roberts was active between 1883 and his death in 1931. He was a prominent member of the Heidelberg School art movement, also known as Australian Impressionism.
As a child, Roberts migrated from England to Australia in 1869, settling in Melbourne. He studied art under Louis Buvelot and returned to England in 1881 for three years's art study at the Royal Academy Schools from 1881 to 1884. In Europe he was influenced by Jules Bastien-Lepage and James Abbott McNeill Whistler. In 1883 he met the Spanish artists Lorreano Barrau and Ramon Casas in Granada, reinforcing the principles of impressionism and plein air painting.
Between 1885 and 1892, Roberts was based in Melbourne where he made his living as a portraitist while playing a key role in establishing the en plein air artist's camps that led to the Heidelberg School. Roberts was also a driving figure in the famous 9 by 5 Impression Exhibition in Melbourne in 1889, contributing 62 works.
Roberts relocated to Sydney in 1890 and continued to paint in artists' camps. During this period, Roberts painted a series of works consciously attempting to frame a uniquely Australian identity, including Shearing the Rams, A break away! and Bailed up.
In 1901 Roberts was commissioned to paint the opening of the first Parliament of the newly federated Australia; resulting in the monumental Big Picture. The mental and physical strain involved in its creation weakened his eyesight, lead to depression, and is generally seen as a turning point in his career after which his work never again reached the same heights. Roberts travelled to the United Kingdom to complete the work and stayed there until 1914, when he returned to Melbourne. He died in Melbourne in 1931.
Helen Topliss published a two-volume catalogue raisonné of Roberts' works in 1985.

List of works

Image	Title	Year	Medium	Dimensions	Collection
	'	-	Oil on canvas on board		National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
	The northern cobbler		Oil on paper		University of Queensland, Brisbane
	Brought back		gouache on paper on board		National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
	Rejected	1883	Oil on canvas		Private collection
	Basking - a corner in the Alhambra	1883	Oil on panel		National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
	'	1883	Oil on canvas		National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
	Still life with pomegranates	1883	Oil on canvas		Private collection
	Una muchacha	1883	Oil on wood panel		Private collection
	Grey day in spring, Venice	1884	Oil on panel		National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
	Woman on a balcony	1884	Oil on academy board		Private collection
	'		Oil on canvas		National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
	The sculptor's studio	1884-85	Oil on canvas		National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
	Winter morning after rain, Gardiner's Creek	1885	Oil on canvas		Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
	'	1885	Oil on panel		National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
	Quiet Stream, Heidelberg		Oil on canvas		Private collection
	'		Oil on wood panel		National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
	Mary		oil on canvas		National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
	Caleb Williamson Esq		Oil on canvas		Private collection
	A summer morning tiff	1886	Oil on canvas		Art Gallery of Ballarat
	Charcoal burners	1886	Oil on canvas		Art Gallery of Ballarat
	Bourke Street	1886	Oil on canvas		National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
	Coming South	1886	Oil on canvas		National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
	'	1886	Oil on canvas		National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
	Louis Abrahams	1886	Oil on canvas		National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
	Miss Minna Simpson	1886	Oil on canvas		National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
	'	1887	Oil on canvas		National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
	Boat on beach, Queenscliff		Oil on canvas		National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
	Reconciliation		Oil on canvas		Castlemaine Art Museum
	Slumbering sea, Mentone	1887	Oil on canvas		National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
	Madame Pfund	1887	Oil on canvas on composition board		National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
	'Evening, when the quiet east flushes faintly at the sun's last look'	1887-88	Oil on canvas		National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
	Blue eyes and brown	1887	Oil on canvas		National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
	'	1888	Oil on canvas		Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
	'	1888	Oil on canvas		New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale
	Holiday sketch at Coogee	1888	Oil on canvas		Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
	An autumn morning, Milson's Point, Sydney	1888	Oil on canvas		Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
	Mrs L. A. Abrahams	1888	Oil on canvas		National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
	Louise, daughter of the Hon. L. L. Smith	1888	Oil on canvas		National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
	'	1888	Oil on canvas		National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
	Dewy eve	1888	Oil on canvas		Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
	Manly, 1888	1888	Oil on wood panel		Manly Art Gallery and Museum
	Jealousy	1889	Oil on canvas on hardboard		Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
	The troubadour of Scotts	1889	Oil on cedar panel		Westpac Corporate Art Collection
	The sick stockrider	-	Gouache and watercolour over pencil on cardboard		Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
	Alexander Anderson Snr	1889	Oil on canvas		Castlemaine Art Museum
	Head study	1889	Oil on wood panel		Kerry Stokes collection, Perth
	Cream and black	1889	Oil on cedar panel		Private collection
	Harbourscape		Oil on panel		National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
	Ulverstone		Oil on canvas		Private collection
	Shearing the Rams	1890	Oil on canvas		National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
	Prawns	1890	Oil on canvas		Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
	Edward Trenchard	1890	Oil on canvas		National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
	S.W. Pring	1891	Oil on canvas		Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
	Lumbering		Watercolour over underdrawing in pencil		National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
	The old barracks at Collendina		Oil on canvas		Private collection
	Smike Streeton age 24	1891	Oil on canvas		Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
	A Break Away!	1891	Oil on canvas		Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
	Charlie Turner	1892	Oil on canvas on paperboard		Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
	Young lubra, Cape York	1892	Oil on canvas		Private collection
	'	1892	Oil on canvas		Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
	Amehnam	1892	Oil on canvas		Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
	Eileen	1892	Oil on canvas		Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
	A turbaned man		Oil on canvas		National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
	James T. Donovan	1892	Oil on canvas		National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
	Sir William Charles Windeyer	1892	Oil on canvas		National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
	Sir Henry Parkes	1892	Oil on canvas		Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
	Adagio		Oil on paperboard		Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
	Plink-a-plong	1893	Oil on canvas		Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
	Practising the Minuet	1893	Oil on canvas		National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
	Shearing shed, Newstead	1893-94	Oil on panel		National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
	'		Oil on canvas		National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
	Mrs Leonard Dodds		Oil on canvas		National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
	Christmas flowers and Christmas Belles	-	Oil on canvas		Manly Art Gallery and Museum
	The bullock team		Watercolour on paper		Manly Art Gallery and Museum
	'	1894	Oil on canvas		Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
	Mosman's Bay	1894	Oil on canvas		New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale
	Peanahgo Billipimbah: Billie Millera	1894	Oil on canvas mounted on board		Private collection
	Landscape, Cremorne	1894	Oil on canvas		National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
	Edward D. S. Ogilvie, 1894-1895	1894-95	Oil on canvas		State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
	On the Timbarra - Reek's and Allen's sluicing claim		Oil on canvas on hardboard		Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
	Sir Henry Parkes		Oil on canvas		Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
	In a Corner on the Macintyre	1895	Oil on canvas		National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
	Miss Isobel McDonald	1895	Oil on canvas		National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
	Bailed Up	1895, 1927	Oil on canvas		Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
	Silent Bob Bates	1895	Oil on cedar panel		Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
	Portrait of George Selth Coppin	-	Oil on cedar panel		National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
	Johann Secundus Kruse	1895	Oil on cedar panel		Private collection
	Portrait of Andrew Garran		Oil on cedar panel		Private collection
	Mariah Charles		Oil on canvas		State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
	Portrait	-	Oil on canvas		Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
	Percy FS Spence	1896	Oil on canvas		Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
	Sketch portrait of Sir Alex Onslow	1896	Oil on canvas		National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
	'A' Battery Field Artillery, New South Wales	1896	Oil on canvas		Australian War Memorial, Canberra
	Sergeant R.D. Fraser, Mounted Rifles	1896	Oil on kauri pine panel		Australian War Memorial, Canberra
	Infantryman of New South Wales 2nd Infantry Regiment	1896	Oil on kauri pine panel		Australian War Memorial, Canberra
	Dion Boucicault		Oil on cedar panel		Private collection
	Sydney Harbour from Milson's Point	1897	Oil on wood		Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
	'	1897, reworked	Oil on canvas		National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
	Alfred Hill	1897	Oil on cedar board		National Library of New Zealand, Wellington
	Sir Thomas Allwright Dibbs	1897	Oil on canvas		State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
	Mrs Tryphena A. Dibbs	1897	Oil on canvas		State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
	Miss Florence Schmidt	1897	Oil on canvas		Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
	Portrait of Florence		Oil on wood		Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
	Miss Florence Greaves	1898	Pastel on paper		Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
	Mrs John St Vincent Welch	1898	Pastel		National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
	Crying baby	1898	pastel		National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
	Frances Ross, actress		Oil on wood		Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
	Mrs Lucy Scot Skirving	1898	Oil on canvas		Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
	Sir James Reading Fairfax	1898	Oil on canvas on board		National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
	Arthur H. Adams		Oil on wood panel		University of Queensland, Brisbane
	Portrait of Professor G.W.L. Marshall Hall	1899	Oil on wood panel		Australian Performing Arts Collection, Arts Centre Melbourne
	Mrs WAB Greaves	1899	Oil on canvas		Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
	A study of Jephthah's daughte	1899	Oil on canvas		Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
	Elise Pinschof Wiedermann	1899	Pastel		Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
	'	1899	Oil on wood		Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
	The camp, Sirius Cove	1899	Oil on canvas on paperboard		Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
	'	1900	Oil on wood		Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
	A French hat	1900	pastel on canvas laid on cedar panel		Art Gallery of Ballarat
	Hutt Valley	1900	Oil on panel		Te Papa, Wellington
	In Quarantine, Wellington	1900	Oil on panel		Te Papa, Wellington
	Portrait of Mr TP Purves	1900	Oil on canvas		Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
	Carmen and Elizabeth Pinschof	1900	Pastel on linen		National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
	Louise Pinschof	1900	Pastel on paper		Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
	Nancy Elmhurst Goode	1900	Coloured pastel		National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
	J.C.W. Nicholson	1901	Oil on canvas		Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
	'	1903	Oil on canvas		Royal Collection. On permanent loan and exhibition at Parliament House, Canberra.
	Sketch portrait of H.R.H. the Duke of Cornwall and York later King George V	1903	Oil on wood panel		National Library of Australia, Canberra
	Portrait of Captain Neil McEacharn as a young man	1903	Oil on canvas		Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
	'	1904	Oil on canvas		Kerry Stokes collection, Perth
	Trafalgar Square	1904	Oil on cardboard		Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
	'	-	Oil on wood panel		National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
	Australian Pastoral	1904-05, reworked 1931	Oil on canvas		National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
	House of Anning Bell	1905	Oil on wood panel		National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
	Canal scene		Oil on wood		Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
	Mrs Tom Roberts		Oil on canvas on hardboard		Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
	Storm at sea		Oil on canvas on plywood		Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
	Thames barges		Oil on canvas on cardboard		Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
	Madame Hartl	1909-10	Oil on canvas		National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
	Portrait of Mrs Tom Roberts	1910	Oil on canvas		National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
	Copse in winter		Oil on canvas on plywood		Private collection
	Grey lady	-	Oil on canvas		Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
	Harrow Hill	-	Oil on canvas on plywood		Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
	Roses	1911	Oil on canvas on hardboard		Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
	'	1913	Oil on canvas		Kerry Stokes collection, Perth
	Kathleen, portrait study		Oil on canvas on plywood		Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston
	The mirror		Oil on canvas		Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston
	Girl's head		Oil on canvas on cardboard		National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
	Penelope	1919	Oil on canvas		National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
	In the Dandenongs	1920	Oil on canvas laid down		University of Queensland, Brisbane
	Hobart, Tasmania	'	Oil on canvas		National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
	Poppies	1921	Oil on canvas		Private collection
	Springtime in Sussex	1921	Oil on canvas on plywood		Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
	Mrs H. G. Potter	1922	Oil on canvas		National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
	Morning mists on Lake Como	1922	Oil on canvas on composition board		National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
	Lake Como	1922	Oil on canvas		National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
	The first of Spring	1922	Oil on unprimed wood panel		National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
	Washing day Kallista	-	Oil on canvas on hardboard		Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
	Country Road Makers	1923	Oil on canvas		Private collection
	Ploughing in the Dandenongs	1924	Oil on canvas		National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
	'	1924	Oil on canvas on plywood		National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
	Sherbrooke Forest	1924	Oil on canvas on paperboard		Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
	Mountain clouds	1924	Oil on plywood		National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
	Barn Close, Diamond Creek		Oil on plywood		National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
	Dogging a log		Oil on wood panel	irregular	National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
	Self portrait	1924	Oil on canvas		Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
	In the shadow of the hills	1924	Oil on plywood		Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
	Under Ben Lomond	-	Oil on wood panel		National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
	'	1926	Oil on canvas		National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
	A queen of gums	1926	Oil on canvas		Private collection
	Wayside, Kallista	1927	Oil on plywood		Castlemaine Art Museum
	Fog on the road to Yea	1928	Oil on canvas on cardboard		National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
	Trawool landscape	1928	Oil on canvas on cardboard		Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
	Glover's country, Tasmania		Oil on plywood		Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart
	Sunrise, Tasmania	1929	Oil on panel		Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide