"The later colonial artists William Piguenit, Nicholas Chevalier and Eugene von Guerard, differ somewhat to those before. Explain what the difference was and what influenced those differences."
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"The later colonial artists William Piguenit, Nicholas Chevalier and Eugene von Guerard, differ somewhat to those before. Explain what the difference was and what influenced those differences." Later colonial artists such as Eugene von Guerard, Nicholas Chevalier and William Piguenit were largely landscape painters. Their works were picturesque and romantic forms of landscape art and differed from works by earlier artists, due to their content and nature. These differences were mainly influenced by the changing needs of the society at the time, as well as other artistic movements. The nature of the works of art by later colonial artists differed from works by earlier artists. The main purpose of earlier works was to illustrate the discoveries of voyages and to promote scientific discoveries. Paintings such as 'A Family of New South Wales' by William Blake and 'An animal of New Holland', by George Stubbs depict individual drawings of animals and native people....

