Early Life and Career Abram Louis Buvelot (1814-1888), a Swiss landscape painter, was born in Morges, Vaud, Switzerland on March 3, 1814. He spent his early years in Brazil for 17 years, followed by a brief period of 5 years in Switzerland before moving to Melbourne, Australia in 1864. His family had been citizens of Morges since 1677 where they had arrived as Protestant refugees from Condé-en-Barrois. He attended art school at Lausanne and studied briefly with Camille Flers before travelling to Paris in about 1834. After a few months there he migrated to Bahia, Brazil where his uncle Françoi…