# Coming South
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{{short description|Painting by Tom Roberts}}
{{Use Australian English|date=June 2020}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}}
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| title=Coming South
| artist=[Tom Roberts](/source/Tom_Roberts)
| year=[1886](/source/1886_in_art)
| medium=oil on canvas
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| city=[Melbourne](/source/Melbourne)
| museum=[National Gallery of Victoria](/source/National_Gallery_of_Victoria)
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'''''Coming South''''' is an [1886](/source/1886_in_art) painting by the Australian artist [Tom Roberts](/source/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](/source/SS_Lusitania_(1871))'' in 1885 after four years abroad in Europe.[{{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 }}]
Historian [Humphrey McQueen](/source/Humphrey_McQueen) describes ''Coming South'' as one of Roberts' seven best-known paintings.[{{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 }}] The [National Gallery of Victoria](/source/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".[{{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 }}]
The painting was acquired by the National Gallery of Victoria in 1967.