Painted mainly domestic scenes, von Stieglitz also painted portraits of Tasmanian Aboriginal men and women. The latter were regarded as inferior because they were colonial ...
Shipped to Tasmania for robbing a grocery shop, Strange established himself as a portrait painter in Launceston where he also painted a number of views ...
Walker received little formal education, but as a young woman showed considerable talent in the art of modelling. She would become very well known for ...
Colonial male photographer whose diverse practice of producing wet-plate albumen prints, ambrotypes, alabastrine portraits and daguerreotypes seems to have existed for only two years before ...
Native colonial whose claim to fame as first-born Australian artist belied the fact he took up landscape only because of the threat of photography to ...
Retired army officer who came to Sydney in 1852. Wingate worked in the media of photography, painting and drawing. He exhibited a photographic panorama of ...
A member of the aristocratic Blaxland family, Louise Australia was the sixth of 11 children, acquiring her middle name as the first 'native' born child ...
William Bruce led a full life. Apprenticed as a engraver, transported as a housebreaker to Van Diemen's land, he established himself as clockmaker and engraver.
Received thanks for his contribution to the illustrations of Woods's 'A History of the Discovery and Exploration of Australia' (2 vols, London, 1865). for the ...
Burn's watercolour and oil landscapes demonstrate his success in capturing the changing effects of light and atmosphere as well as incorporating interesting contemporary details.
Young exploratory surveyor who impressed others with his work so much that they named the most beautiful waterfall in that area 'Govett's Leap'. He was ...
Colonial era sketcher, architect, builder and pastoralist, he established Melbourne's first private architectural practice, and in 1841 drew an enormous 'PANORAMIC Sketch of MELBOURNE Port ...
Engraver, schoolteacher, writer and poet, arrived at Hobart Town, Tasmania, from England in 1857. He produced a map of Hobart town, judged to be 'one ...