Sydney-born female artist who used watercolour, pencil and ink to depict a variety of subjects in her work from landscapes, houses, plant studies and even ...
English colonial male lithographer, watercolourist, and draughtsman. His diverse career included writing and illustrating children's books, teaching, publishing newspapers, public speaking and founding music and ...
English colonial wood engraver and painter who worked with his brother Frederick on numerous illustrations for a range of Sydney newspapers. He had many jobs ...
One of three artistic sisters from Tasmania, she was a colonial sculptor who studied in London and exhibited in Paris, working in pottery and fashioning ...
English colonial male wood engraver and painter who taught music and set up Brisbane's first theatre. Apart from being bankrupted twice, he advertised as an ...
Late colonial period Adelaide painter, illustrator, etcher, curator, critic and journalist. In 1913, Mather was director of the Art Gallery of South Australia.
Colonial female lace-maker whose Gothic revival style and Celtic interlacing title pages illuminated the names of Queen Victoria and Lady Smith, before bringing the Tasmanian ...
Significant English cartoonist who worked in Sydney and Melbourne for three years in the late Colonial period: "a rival to Charles Keene as England's greatest ...
Tasmanian born landscape painter who later trained and worked in Sydney, NSW. McComas later migrated to California where he made his name as an artist.
Primarily a poet, McCrae kept a diary and sketched; his work was influenced by the Indigenous population at Arthur's Seat on the Mornington Peninsula. His ...
Significant early 20th century Melbourne and Sydney poet, author, cartoonist, illustrator and editor, McCrae was a close friend of Norman Lindsay, with whom he collaborated ...
From the 1880s, when his first mature work was painted, until just before his death in 1917, Frederick McCubbin painted some of Australia's most loved ...