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Art Gallery of New South Wales
The Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW) is an art gallery, open to the public, and located in The Domain in Sydney, Australia. The most important gallery in Sydney and the second largest in Australia after the National Gallery of Victoria. Admission to the general exhibition space which features Australian historical, modern and Asian art, is free. The Gallery often also carries various feature exhibitions in closed areas for which admission is charged.
Established in 1874, the gallery early on bought some large works from Europe such as Ford Madox Brown's Chaucer at the Court of Edward III. Later they bought work from Australian artists such as Streeton's 1891 Fire's on, Roberts' 1894 The Golden Fleece and McCubbin's 1896 On the wallaby track.
Includes works by many Australian artists, including 19th Century Australian artists such as John Glover, Arthur Streeton, Eugene Von Guerard, John Russell, Tom Roberts, David Davies, Charles Conder, W.C. Piguenit, E. Phillips Fox, Frederick McCubbin, Sydney Long and George W. Lambert.
20th Century Australian artists represented include Hugh Ramsay, Rupert Bunny, Grace Cossington Smith, Roland Wakelin, Margaret Preston, William Dobell, Sidney Nolan, Russel Drysdale, James Gleeson, Arthur Boyd, Lloyd Rees, John Olsen, Fred Williams, Brett Whiteley and Imants Tillers.
The Gallery hosts the long running Archibald Prize, the most prominent Australian art prize, along with the Sulman prize, Wynne prize and Dobell art prizes, among others.
In the movie, Sirens, Hugh Grant walks past paintings in the Art Gallery of NSW at the start of the film which include: Spring Frost by Elioth Gruner, The Golden Fleece (1894) by Tom Roberts, Still Glides the Stream and Shall Forever Glide (1890) by Arthur Streeton, Bailed Up by Tom Roberts and Chaucer at the Court of Edward III (1847-51) by Ford Maddox Brown.