Jane Sutherland (26 December 1853 – 25 July 1928) was an Australian landscape painter who was part of the pioneering plein-air movement in Australia, and a member of the Heidelberg School.

[3] The second view came from the Australian women's suffrage movement, which not only called for the female right to vote, but the need for equal education to access confidence, achievement and employment.

Critics justified the distinction due to Sutherland's landscapes being a comparable to the strong form of male artist's work.

[4] In 1884 she became one of the first women members of the Buonarotti Club and, as Mead shown,[5] membership formed relationships between Sutherland, Withers, Roberts, McCubbin, Abrahams and others leading to them painting together in plein air camps as the Heidelberg School of artists.

[6] Sutherland was the leading female artist in the group of Melbourne painters who worked outside the studio; she took plein-air sketching trips to the outlying rural districts of Alphington, Templestowe and Box Hill with her male contemporaries of the Heidelberg School.

[8] There is a continuing debate, highlighted by art historians Juliet Peers and Humphrey McQueen, if the exclusion of Sutherland and Southern was due to gender roles of the time or merely that their work did not fit the curator's, Elsie Goode, overall vision.

In one example from 1894 exhibition, Sutherland's work To the Dandenong asking price was eighteen guineas, while David Davies sold his piece Moonrise for seventy-five pounds.

[1] Jane Sutherland was an important figure in a generation of Australian women who chose to pursue a career in art over marriage and creating a family.