Louis Buvelot

Abram-Louis "Louis" Buvelot (; 3 March 1814 – 30 May 1888) was a Swiss landscape painter who lived 17 years in Brazil, and following 5 years back in Switzerland, stayed 23 years in Australia, where he influenced the Heidelberg School of painters.

Biography Buvelot was born on 3 March 1814 in Morges, Vaud, Switzerland,

Buvelot got a job teaching art at a private school in Switzerland. Buvelot's uncle had a plantation in Brazil. His enthusiasm for plein air painting (that is, painting directly in the open air) was a key characteristic of those artists' work.

Awards and honours

Silver medal at an exhibition in Bern in 1856 Two paintings purchased by the National Gallery of Victoria in 1869 Gold medals at Melbourne exhibitions in 1873 Silver medal at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876 Gold medals at Melbourne exhibitions in 1880 and 1884 A gallery at the NGV is named for him. NGV also holds and his bust by Bertram Mackennal and a portrait in oils by J. C. Waite Art Gallery of New South Wales Art Gallery of Western Australia Art Gallery of Ballarat Geelong Gallery Castlemaine Art Museum Tate Gallery in London