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Webb, Albion K. P.
sketcher, was reputedly working in Australia in the 1850s.
Webb, Alexander James, b. 1813
oil and watercolour painter. Migrated to Victoria about 1855 and settled in Geelong. His work consisted mainly of landscapes, most of which were done in ...
Webster, John, b. 1818
Webster produced sketches during the voyage of the 'Wanderer' in 1851. These were later worked up by George French Angas into twenty-five watercolours, intended as ...
Weger, Wilhelm, b. 1839
Sketcher and blacksmith of German origin. Wilhelm drew a naive watercolour of Ernst Weger's Stanley Street business, North Adelaide in 1855.
Weidenbach, Max, b. 1823
Painter, Egyptologist and Prussian consul to South Australia. A watercolour sketch of Glen Osmond in 1849 from the Chimney Hill showing the Miners' Arms Hotel, ...
Wellings, Henry, b. 1827
Portrait painter of Balmain, Sydney. Described as 'musician, artist, and ripe Shakespearean actor'.
Wells,
Professional photographer, worked in partnership with Nicholson at Melbourne in 1858.
West, Christopher M. S.
Sketcher, is known only for his pencil 'View from Dryburgh St, Melbourne, Victoria - As It Was in 1855'.
West, E. H.
Watercolour painter and designer, appears to have been in Sydney in the late 1840s when she painted a watercolour, Henrietta Villa, Eliza Point, Rose Bay.
Westmacott, Robert Marsh, b. 1801
Sketcher, army officer and pioneer, is best known for his Sketches in Australia, a volume of eighteen tinted lithographic views each preceded by a short ...
Weynton, Alexander, b. 1827
Colonial era British watercolourist and master mariner. Made several visits to Australia during his sea voyages.
Wherrett, Charles, b. 1832
Professional portrait and landscape photographer working primarily in Hobart, Tasmania. He also worked in Castlemaine and Bendigo, Victoria.
Whitby,
Sketcher who showed five works with the South Australian Society of Arts at Adelaide in 1859.
White, William
Drawing teacher and architect. He designed St Paul's Church of England at West Maitland that is still in use.
Whitehead, Isaac, b. 1819
Isaac Whitehead was a painter, watercolourist, pastellist, picture-framer and art promoter. He must have come to Victoria with his family in about 1858, according to ...
Wigmore, R.
Wigmore organised the Hobart Town Art-Treasures Exhibition with Morton Allport in around 1858. He was a sketcher.
Wild, O.
Colonial engraver whose cityscape of North Adelaide from the footbridge is referred to in the book 'The Bridge over the Ocean', 1973.
Wilkinson, Charles
Colonial geologist whose pioneer use of photography to illustrate Victorian rocks may have inspired his son to become a geologist too.
Wilkinson, D.
Colonial Melbourne male artist who exhibited paintings with unusual subject matter ranging from a burning boat to bovine portraits.
Wilkinson, Henry
English colonial surgeon and watercolourist who painted landscapes. He settled in Sydney in 1854.