[citation needed] Later that decade, Abrahams attended the Artisans School of Design in Carlton, where he met Frederick McCubbin.

[1] The pair formed a close friendship and later enrolled at the National Gallery of Victoria Art School in 1871, where they founded a club to study the nude.

[1] Later accompanied by Arthur Streeton, Charles Conder and others, the group sought to capture the Australian bush by painting it en plein air.

[2] His body was found in a basement toilet at his factory, "with a bullet wound in the head and a revolver clenched in both hands".

[3] Abrahams' personal art collection was passed down to his grandson, architect Sir Denys Lasdun, best-known for designing the Royal National Theatre complex on London's South Bank.