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Plush, John Saddington, b. 1808
South Australian sketcher, farmer and orchardist. The Art Gallery of South Australia holds a watercolour by Plush.
Kelly, Alexander Charles, b. 1811
A keen viticulturalist and medical practitioner Kelly settled in South Australia where he is known to have completed a sketch of the Adelaide Plains. He ...
Mackie, Frederick, b. 1812
Colonial male Quaker teacher of natural sciences whose sketches of prisoners provide insight into the Port Arthur colony. He travelled to Quaker communities around the ...
Stephen, George, b. 1812
Throughout his artistic life Stephen worked as a miniaturist and sketcher, offset by such occupations as public servant, geologist, barrister, politician and faith healer (it ...
Babbage, Benjamin Herschel, b. 1815
Sketcher who trained as an engineer. Babbage was also an amateur photographer, architect, scientist and explorer. His pen-and-ink expedition sketches were shown in Adelaide at ...
Skipper, John Michael, b. 1815
Colonial Adelaide painter, sketcher, cartoonist, writer and solicitor.
Montefiore, Eliezer, b. 1820
Sketcher, etcher, art patron, gallery director and businessman, he helped establish the New South Wales Academy of Art and the National Art Gallery of New ...
Snell, Edward, b. 1820
A successful surveyor and engineer as well as a painter and a sketcher, whose move to Australia was significant to his artistic output, beginning with ...
Ball, Adam Gustavus, b. 1821
Like so many artists of the period, Ball's job as a civil engineer allowed him to travel throughout South Australia recording scenes of outback life ...
Blandowski, Johann Wilhelm Theodor Ludwig, b. 1822
William Blandowski lived in Australia for almost a decade and in that time he explored tracts of Central Victoria and helped found the Geological Society ...
Richardson, George, b. 1822
George Bouchier Richardson, sketcher, engraver, watercolourist and editor, 'regretted the necessity which compelled him to join his parents in Australia in 1854, but hoped that ...
Thomas, William, b. 1822
W.R. Thomas was a competent watercolourist and a number of his works survive in private homes in South Australia.
Cawthorne, William Anderson, b. 1824
Sketcher, watercolourist and schoolmaster in Adelaide, Vic. Known for his writings and artworks with a colonial focus.
Joubert, Jules François De Sales, b. 1824
Nineteenth century art and language teacher, exhibition organiser, theatrical entrepreneur and property developer he played a major part in expanding colonial Australian representation in international ...
MacCormac, Andrew, b. 1826
Male colonial painter of portraits, a few landscape and genre paintings, who mainly worked in South Australia, portraying the upper classes.
Adamson, James Hazell, b. 1829
This diverse artist practised as a painter, lithographer and professional photographer. His works encompassed portrait, landscape and still life genres. Exhibiting in Adelaide, Melbourne and ...
Presgrave, Catherine, b. 1829
Catherine Presgrave was known as an art teacher instructing students in 'Drawing, Landscape and Flower Painting'.
Minchin, Richard, b. 1831
Painter, lithographer(?), draughtsman and zoo director, migrated to Adelaide from Ireland in the 1850s, won many prizes at the South Australian Society of Arts with ...
Cumming, Janet, b. 1832
Sketcher born in Glasgow, Scotland but later a resident of Adelaide. Scott's drawings were praised for their 'fanciful design and spirited execution'.
Younghusband, Eliza, b. 1840
Eliza Younghusband (c.1840-?), album compiler, was active in Adelaide, SA, in the 1850s and 60s. Her album is in the collection of the National Library ...