James Robert Hutchings (1872-1962) migrated from England in 1863 to Hobart. He painted oil landscape across Tasmania, New Zealand and the east coast of Australia. He produced a number of works in the Blue Mountains. He also worked as a scenery painter for the Tivoli Theatre. He did not achieve the recognition of artists in the Heidelberg school and his themes were directed more to the lush forestlands and waterways than the hinterland of Australia.