John A. Upton was a professional painter and photographic colourist of the late 19th Century. Upton studied at the Royal Melbourne Technical College and the ...
Slater & Glazier, born in Kilmarnock, Scotland. He was an apprentice of James Ferguson in Wallacetown, Ayr. Both men came to Australia in late 1852 ...
Thomas Urquhart was a colonial era Victorian caricaturist, army officer(?) and remittance man(?). He was exiled to Australia after he married Mary Norrie. His hobby ...
A painter, enameller and art teacher, May Vale was acclaimed for her 'pioneering' work in enamels, which included Australian landscapes and large scale pieces such ...
A war artist and correspondent, Villiers came to Australia on lecture tours on five occasions. His first round-the-world tour was in 1880, the second in ...
Colonial era Dutch cartoonist and horticulturalist who worked for several years in Townsville before settling in Java where he became a notable orchid collector.
Painter, scene-painter and professional photographer of German origin. Always more interested in painting than photography, Wagner produced watercolours, pastels and oil paintings as well as ...
As a portrait painter, Walker trained in Europe at institutions such as the Slade School in London and Colarossi's in Paris. She received commissions from ...
Professional photographer, published a series of stereoscopic photographs of views in Victoria, primarily of the Melbourne and Geelong districts, at Melbourne in the late 1860s.
John Samuel Watkins (1866-1942) was an English born portrait painter. He is best known for operating a popular Sydney based art school during the early ...