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Want, Randolph John, b. 1811
Prominent solicitor and Member of Parliament (1856-61). Although relatively unknown as an artist, four small signed pencil drawings by Want dating from about 1843 are ...
Wardlow,
watercolourist and teacher, advertised her boarding-school, the Belle Vue House Academy for Young Ladies in Kent Street, Sydney, in the Sydney Morning Herald in June ...
Waters, Henry
Painter and carver, showed his painting, 'A Storm', in the Colonial Room at the second exhibition of the Society for the Promotion of the Fine ...
Watts, George Stedman, b. 1804
Watts set up business as a portrait painter in 1842. This did not last long and none of his portraits have been located. He worked ...
Wauch, Anna Sarah Rachel, b. 1828
Painted watercolour scenes around the Port Macquarie area. Her work, described as 'spirited' and 'lively', depicted subjects such as a dismounted trooper fighting a tribal ...
Waugh, James William
Sketcher, stationer and art supplier, publisher and bookseller. Published 'Waugh and Cox's Directory of Sydney' in 1855. A sketchbook attributed to Waugh (ML) dates from ...
Webster, Alexander George, b. 1830
Wool and grain merchant. Produced watercolour and pencil views of Tasmanian landscapes.
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 ...
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, ...
Welch, W. J.
Commercial artist, painted murals inside shops and inns and provided scenery for local theatrical productions. Welch also painted landscapes in oils.
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.
Westall, William, b. 1781
William Westall was the appointed landscape artist on Matthew Flinders' 1801 "Investigator" expedition which was the first maritime circumnavigation of Australia.
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 ...
Weston, William Pritchard, b. 1804
Elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly and twice served short terms as premier. His fifteen known drawings in pencil, pen-and-ink and wash originally in ...
Wetzel,
Painter, is known only as the artist of the unlocated Portrait of Mr Menge.
Wheeler, Charles
Sketcher and Quaker missionary he visited Tasmania in 1834 while on a mission tour of the South Sea islands and eastern Australia, arriving in Sydney ...
White, Una, b. 1842
Illustrator, was the youngest daughter of George Cox, a descendant of William Cox. Some of her sketches were used to illustrate her father's George Cox ...
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 ...
Whitfield, George
Painter, worked in Sydney from the mid-1840s to the mid 1850s.
Wickham, George
Oil painter, showed three paintings in the second exhibition of the Society for the Promotion of the Fine Arts in Australia at Sydney in 1849.