Two of Streeton's best-known works were painted during this period-Golden Summer, Eaglemont (1889) and ′Still glides the stream, and shall for ever glide′ (1890)-each a sunlit pastoral scene of golden-paddocked plains stretching to the distant blue Corhanwarrabul.
Streeton was made an Australian Official War Artist with the Australian Imperial Force, holding the rank of Honorary Lieutenant, and he travelled to France on 14 May 1918 and was attached to the 2nd Division, receiving his movement order on 8 May 1918.