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Williamson, Elizabeth, b. 1860
Elizabeth Sarah (Lillie) Williamson was a frame-maker. She married Tom Roberts on 30 April 1896. Her frames were hung at the Royal Academy in London ...
Wilshire, Rosalie, b. 1866
Sydney-based poet and illustrator whose oil and watercolour paintings included landscapes, still lifes and shell studies. She had a book of poetry published illustrated with ...
Wilson, Ada
Ada Wilson was a lacemaker and designer. She was president of the committee for the promotion of a School of Lace Design in Hobart in ...
Wilson, Dorothy Elspeth, b. 1878
Dorothy Elspeth Wilson (Mrs Richard Wardill) was a very talented bookbinder. In 1906 she invited a group of six decorative artists and together they decided ...
Wilson, William John, b. 1833
Scene painter and stage designer for various London and Sydney based theatre companies. Wilson also painted Australian coastal scenes, rural English landscapes and views in ...
Wilson, William George, b. 1849
Painter, exhibited with the Queensland Art Society from 1892 to 1913.
Wilson, Dora L., b. 1883
Best known for her street scenes showing figures in dappled light, Dora Wilson was also a printmaker who was awarded a silver medal for the ...
Winckler, Ruby, b. 1886
Ruby Winckler was a painter and illustrator who exhibited with the NSW Society of Artists. Winckler spent some time in America after accepting a commission ...
Wishart, George, b. 1872
Brisbane based artist whose painting practice focused on marine subjects around Moreton Bay or on the Brisbane River.
Withers, Walter, b. 1854
The English born painter Walter Withers is known for his moody landscapes of the Victorian landscape around Heidelberg, Eaglemont and Creswick. In the brotherhood of ...
Wolinski, Joseph, b. 1872
painter, did a large oil painting showing NSW rising from a bed of native flora which decorated an arch erected for the Federation procession in ...
Wollaston, H.
Federation period Sydney newspaper illustrator.
Wood, Ethel
Federation period Bulletin cartoonist, the earliest regular female cartoon contributor.
Woodhouse, Frederick, b. 1820
Woodhouse became best known for painting every Melbourne Cup winner for more than thirty years, from 1861. During a long, successful and prolific career, he ...
Woodhouse, Frederick, b. 1848
Painter, painted many Melbourne Cup winners, including 'Auraria, Winner of the Melbourne Cup, 1895, with John Stevenson up, at Flemington,' 1895, oil on canvas, which ...
Woodhouse, Herbert James, b. 1858
Late colonial period Melbourne painter, illustrator, printmaker and sculptor, is buried in Geelong Cemetery, Victoria.
Woodward, Arthur Thomas, b. 1865
Arthur Thomas Woodward was a painter and art teacher. He introduced the teaching of crafts to the School of Art and Design at the Bendigo ...
Young, Blamire, b. 1862
Originally a mathematics teacher, the English born Blamire Young established himself as an illustrator, painter, designer, writer and art critic. An article in 'Art and ...
Ziegler, Ernest Charles Victor, b. 1862
Ernest Ziegler was a known studio photographer, based in South Australia. He began his career as a photographer’s printer at the ‘Adelaide Photographic Company’ in ...
van Raalte, Henri Benedictus Salaman, b. 1881
English trained printmaker who arrived in Western Australia in 1910. During the following two decades he was one of Australia's best known printmakers working mainly ...