The Art Gallery of NSW’s Australian art collection is among the finest and most representative in the country. Dating from the early 1800s, it contains almost 11,000 works, including many iconic paintings from the annals of Australian art history by Eugene von Guérard, WC Piguenit, Charles Conder, Frederick McCubbin, Arthur Streeton and Tom Roberts along with 20th-century artists such as Margaret Preston, Grace Cossington Smith, William Dobell, Russell Drysdale, Lloyd Rees, Jeffrey Smart, John Olsen, Fred Williams, John Brack, Rosalie Gascoigne, Brett Whiteley, all represented at their very best.