{{short description|Painting by Tom Roberts}} {{Use Australian English|date=June 2020}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}} {{Infobox artwork | image_file=Tom Roberts - Coming South - Google Art Project.jpg | backcolor=#FBF5DF | image_size=300px | title=Coming South | artist=Tom Roberts | year=1886 | medium=oil on canvas | height_metric=63.5 | width_metric= 52.2 | height_imperial= | width_imperial= | metric_unit=cm | imperial_unit=in | city=Melbourne | museum=National Gallery of Victoria }} '''''Coming South''''' is an 1886 painting by the Australian artist Tom Roberts. The painting depicts migrants coming to Australia from Europe aboard a steamship. Roberts based the painting on sketches he had made when returning to Australia aboard the ''SS Lusitania'' in 1885 after four years abroad in Europe.<ref name="Migration">{{cite web | url=http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/collection/stories/identity/cultural-and-personal-identity/migration-and-multiculturalism | title=Migration and multiculturalism | publisher=National Gallery of Victoria | work=Collection Stories | accessdate=11 May 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120421125523/http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/collection/stories/identity/cultural-and-personal-identity/migration-and-multiculturalism | archive-date=21 April 2012 | url-status=dead }}</ref>

Historian Humphrey McQueen describes ''Coming South'' as one of Roberts' seven best-known paintings.<ref name="McQueen">{{cite web | url=http://home.alphalink.com.au/~loge27/roberts/roberts_roberts_review.htm | title=Review: Tom Roberts | accessdate=11 May 2012 | author=Seeton, Alexander | archive-date=12 April 2011 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110412213052/http://home.alphalink.com.au/~loge27/roberts/roberts_roberts_review.htm | url-status=dead }}</ref> The National Gallery of Victoria describes it as "a definitive image of the migrant experience" and "Roberts's first exploration of one of the great themes of Australian life".<ref name="NGV">{{cite web | url=http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/col/work/2892 | archive-url=https://archive.today/20121127081629/http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/col/work/2892 | url-status=dead | archive-date=27 November 2012 | title=Coming South | publisher=National Gallery of Victoria | work=Collection Online | accessdate=11 May 2012 }}</ref>

The painting was acquired by the National Gallery of Victoria in 1967.<ref name="NGV" />

==See also== * List of paintings by Tom Roberts

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==External links== *[https://archive.today/20121127081629/http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/col/work/2892 ''Coming South''] &ndash; National Gallery of Victoria

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Category:Paintings by Tom Roberts Category:1886 paintings Category:Maritime paintings Category:Paintings in the National Gallery of Victoria Category:Works about human migration Category:Oil paintings on canvas

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