The exhibition will highlight a rich and fascinating collection of 50 European paintings, watercolours, drawings and sculptures of the 19th century assembled in recent years by John Schaeffer, Australia’s most passionate collector of 19th-century European art. The exhibition brings to Sydney major Victorian paintings by such artists as Redgrave, Faed, Holman Hunt, Collinson, Leighton, Sandys, Watts, and Waterhouse. The exhibition complements the Gallery’s own rich holdings of Victorian art. From poverty depicted in social realism to the riches of high Victorian aestheticism, the exhibition reflects a wide range of human experience in the emergent modern world.

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