Charcoal burners (previously known as Wood splitters) is a 1886 painting by the Australian artist Tom Roberts.

[1] The painting depicts three rural labourers "splitting and stacking timber for the preparation of charcoal".

[1] Roberts painted the picture from sketches made at a camp he made with Frederick McCubbin at Box Hill, then a rural locality east of Melbourne.

A ransom was paid the following year for the safe recovery of the painting from a park in Sydney.

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