If it's a real-life place in the painting, you can visit it yourself. Like Giverny, where Monet lived and painted the beauties of his garden. Perhaps, for these famous painters, it was the opposite.

He sat there where you are now and said he'd love to see the garden," she says. Jason Busch It was this view of Lavender Bay that inspired many of Brett Whiteley's famous paintings "I realised ...