Aboriginal portraits home after 170 years
A collection of 19th Century paintings of Aboriginal Tasmanians has gone on display in Australia for the first time. English convict artist Thomas Bock painted the portraits of indigenous leaders in Tasmania in the 1830s - a time of infamous frontier conflicts.
The artworks have been kept in Britain, mostly in storage, since the 1840s. The exhibition in Hobart has stirred up complex feelings for descendants of those featured in the paintings. The works, on loan from the British Museum, went on display at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (TMAG) on Friday.
