Duterrau arrived in Australia when he was 65. Already an established artist, he produced many Australian 'firsts' including 'The Conciliation' - the first history painting ...
Francis Guillemard Simpkinson was a painter, diarist and naval officer. In 1845 at the Hobart Town Art Exhibition, (the first major fine arts exhibition in ...
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 ...
Colonial female painter and drawer of the famous Macarthur family who documented her life in pictures that are now missing. Fortunately she refers to these ...
Sketcher Emily Stuart Bowring's known and attributed pencil and watercolour drawings are mainly of places where she lived or visited. Most depict homesteads or their ...
Well-trained colonial artist of the famous Macarthur Family who drew and painted landscapes and interiors throughout her life in Australia and London. She also improved ...
An explorer and sketcher, Stephen King accompanied John McDouall Stuart on his exploration journey across Australia; he later travelled around South Australia on field surveys. ...
Catherine Elizabeth (Kate) Sheppard was mainly known as a portrait painter, although she also painted altar pieces. In 1869 she gained public recognition for her ...
Painter, art teacher, pastoralist and utopian socialist, Hack taught drawing in Adelaide from 1868 to 1873. He travelled widely and a surviving sketchbook records foreign ...
A dentist, sketcher and amateur photographer. He exhibited some photographs at a South Australian exhibition in 1859. Although he spent his time working as a ...