Abram Louis Buvelot, 1814-88 has 369 works listed in the Australian Art Sales Digest.

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Abram Louis Buvelot, 1814-88, Australia, Brasil, Switzerland.

Born in Switzerland Buvelot had spent time studying in Paris and worked as a portrait photographer and landscape painter in Rio de Janeiro and Calcutta before arriving in Australia in 1865 at the age of fifty.
At first he worked as a portrait photographer but soon established himself as a painter. In the British colony his painterly landscapes seemed very French and a breath of fresh air on the local art scene. The foreword to the 1874 Intercolonial Exhibition in Melbourne stated, 'What the work of Monsieur Corot is to France, that of Monsieur Buvelot is to Australia. ' Influenced by his training in Switzerland and Paris and later friendship with artists who had had contact with the French Barbizon School painters, his landscapes seemed the height of modernity to those young artists studying under the old-fashioned teaching of von Guerard at Melbourne's National Gallery School.
Buvelot's belief in, and encouragement of, the practice of sketching and painting watercolours out of doors influenced this younger generation eager to experience and capture the essence of the Australian landscape. While he painted and finished his canvases in the studio his paintings, unlike the highly finished canvases of his contemporaries, still possessed a painterly immediacy. It is not difficult to understand why Buvelot's work was so much admired by the younger generation of artists who formed. the Heidelberg School and who came to regard him as the founder of Australian landscape painting.

Top Five Sale Prices

Abram Louis Buvelot, At Lilydale, oil on canvas, signed and dated lower left L. Buvelot 1870, 77 x 100 cm, Price $****, Christies, Melbourne, 30/07/90

Abram Louis Buvelot, Mount Macedon 1872, oil on canvas, signed and dated lower left: L. Buvelot/ 1872, 70 x 101.5 cm, Price $****, Deutscher~Menzies, Melbourne, 21/08/01

Abram Louis Buvelot, At Broadford, Victoria, oil on canvas, signed and dated 'Buvelot 1878' lower left and further signed, dated and inscribed with title on stretcher bar, 47 x 69.5 cm, Price $****, Christies, Melbourne, 01/05/00

Abram Louis Buvelot, Between Western Port Bay and Dromana 1875, oil on canvas, signed and dated lower left: L. Buvelot. 1875, 48 x 71 cm, Price $****, Deutscher~Menzies, Melbourne, 09/05/01

Abram Louis Buvelot, Victorian Landscape, oil on canvas, signed and dated 1972 lower left, 38 x 60 cm, Price $****, Sotheby's, Melbourne, 06/04/87

The table below shows the number of works of art by Abram Louis Buvelot offered and sold by auction in Australia and New Zealand over the last thirty years and listed in our database. Full details of each work, including title, medium, size, signature and sold price are available to subscribers.

Medium Offered Sold

Paintings 118 65

Works on Paper 251 190

The Australian Art Sales Digest is a database of over 300,000 works by more than 11,400 artists who have either lived or worked in Australia or New Zealand, offered for sale by auction in Australia and New Zealand since the early 1970s. The database is regularly updated with current year auction results, as they become available.
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Abram Louis Buvelot, 1814-88, Australia, Brasil, Switzerland.
Born in Switzerland Buvelot had spent time studying in Paris and worked as a portrait photographer and landscape painter in Rio de Janeiro and Calcutta before arriving in Australia in 1865 at the age of fifty. At first he worked as a portrait photographer but soon established himself as a painter. In the British colony his painterly landscapes seemed very French and a breath of fresh air on the local art scene. The foreword to the 1874 Intercolonial Exhibition in Melbourne stated, 'What the work of Monsieur Corot is to France, that of Monsieur Buvelot is to Australia. ' Influenced by his training in Switzerland and Paris and later friendship with artists who had had contact with the French Barbizon School painters, his landscapes seemed the height of modernity to those young artists studying under the old-fashioned teaching of von Guerard at Melbourne's National Gallery School. Buvelot's belief in, and encouragement of, the practice of sketching and painting watercolours out of doors influenced this younger generation eager to experience and capture the essence of the Australian landscape. While he painted and finished his canvases in the studio his paintings, unlike the highly finished canvases of his contemporaries, still possessed a painterly immediacy. It is not difficult to understand why Buvelot's work was so much admired by the younger generation of artists who formed. the Heidelberg School and who came to regard him as the founder of Australian landscape painting.
Top Five Sale Prices
Abram Louis Buvelot, At Lilydale, oil on canvas, signed and dated lower left L. Buvelot 1870, 77 x 100 cm, Price $****, Christies, Melbourne, 30/07/90
Abram Louis Buvelot, Mount Macedon 1872, oil on canvas, signed and dated lower left: L. Buvelot/ 1872, 70 x 101.5 cm, Price $****, Deutscher~Menzies, Melbourne, 21/08/01
Abram Louis Buvelot, At Broadford, Victoria, oil on canvas, signed and dated 'Buvelot 1878' lower left and further signed, dated and inscribed with title on stretcher bar, 47 x 69.5 cm, Price $****, Christies, Melbourne, 01/05/00
Abram Louis Buvelot, Between Western Port Bay and Dromana 1875, oil on canvas, signed and dated lower left: L. Buvelot. 1875, 48 x 71 cm, Price $****, Deutscher~Menzies, Melbourne, 09/05/01
Abram Louis Buvelot, Victorian Landscape, oil on canvas, signed and dated 1972 lower left, 38 x 60 cm, Price $****, Sotheby's, Melbourne, 06/04/87
The table below shows the number of works of art by Abram Louis Buvelot offered and sold by auction in Australia and New Zealand over the last thirty years and listed in our database. Full details of each work, including title, medium, size, signature and sold price are available to subscribers.
Medium	Offered	Sold
Paintings	118	65
Works on Paper	251	190
The Australian Art Sales Digest is a database of over 300,000 works by more than 11,400 artists who have either lived or worked in Australia or New Zealand, offered for sale by auction in Australia and New Zealand since the early 1970s. The database is regularly updated with current year auction results, as they become available. The information is used Access to the database is available on either a monthly subscription for $Au25.00 or annual subscription for $Au145.00. During the subscription period you have unlimited access to the site. If you would like to subscribe, please click here for our Secure Subscription Form Please note we do not buy, sell, appraise or value works of art, but offer an information resource used by auction houses, collectors, commercial galleries, valuers, researchers and consultants.