They included: the Irish - born George Frederick Folingsby (1828 — 91), who arrived in Australia in 1879 and became Master of the School of Painting at the NGS in 1882; the Swiss artist Abram Louis Buvelot (1814 — 88) who arrived in 1865 and taught at the Carlton School of Design in Melbourne; the English - born art teacher Julian Ashton (1851 — 1942) who settled in Sydney where he ran one of the best art schools in New South Wales; the English - born
plein -
air specialist A.J.Daplyn (1844 — 1926) who arrived in Australia in 1882 and shared his
experience of Fontainebleau and the Barbizon School of landscape painting, before later writing a book entitled Landscape Painting from Nature in Australia (1902); the Italian - born
painter Girolamo Pieri Ballati Nerli (1860 — 1926), influenced by the Macchiaioli group, who first lived in Melbourne before moving to Sydney in 1886; the Portuguese - born
plein -
air artist and Symbolist
painter Arthur Jose De Souza Loureiro (1853 — 1932).