Benjamin Duterrau (2 March 1767– 11 July 1851) was an English painter, etcher, engraver, sculptor and art lecturer who emigrated to Tasmania.

[5] His most famous painting "The Conciliation" (1840)[6] is in the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery in Hobart, which was intended to be a study for his "A National Picture", a 3.04m x 4.26m epic which has been long missing.

[8] His daughter Jane (1812–1885) married John Bogle (1808–1879), a colonial merchant, in Hobart, Tasmania in February 1838, before returning to Britain.

[10][11] For example, although a minor artist, the Museum of Australian Democracy considers The Conciliation to be the first national epic painting and a foundation document for Australia.

[10] Intended to portray the end of the conflict in Van Diemen's land (Tasmania) between white settlers and First Nation people, the images are considered by Greg Lehman to be both ambivalent and ambiguous about the conciliation transaction and presages the betrayal of promises made to First Nation people by the Governor George Augustus Robinson.