1902, there were no children. In July 1888 a memorial exhibition of his work was held at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, and one of the galleries in that building was subsequently named after him. Buvelot is best known for his great contribution to Australian art. His works, mostly oil landscapes, are quite well regarded, but perhaps his impact was even greater as a tutor of several members of the Heidelberg School, including Arthur Streeton, who named Buvelot's 1866 painting Summer Evening Near Templestowe the "first fine landscape painted in Victoria". His enthusiasm for plein air painting (that is, painting directly in the open air) was a key characteristic of those artists' work. Collections National Gallery of Victoria, 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 See also French Australians Australian art References External links Buvelot, Abram-Louis (1814–1888) – Australian Dictionary of Biography 1814 births 1888 deaths Australian landscape painters Australian people of French descent Australian people of Swiss descent Swiss landscape painters 19th-century Australian painters 19th-century Australian male artists People from Morges Australian male painters