Elizabeth Douglass worked mainly in miniature portraits on ivory, chalk drawings, watercolour, engraving and oil colour. Her work received recognition at the Geelong Mechanics Institute, ...
Late colonial-era Adelaide painter and cartoonist. Most of her art work appears to have been small in scale with numerous flower studies painted on green ...
Painter, decorative artist and amateur architect in Duntroon, Canberra. Painted meticulously executed botanical paintings and was known for her medical dispensary.
Christina Kennedy lived and worked in South Australia where she and her family were all involved in craft production. Her 'Tripod Table' (c.1880), made of ...
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 ...
Although Florence received little formal training she was exhibiting at the Royal Academy, London, by her late teens. Migrating permanently in 1873, Florence's paintings seem ...
A photographer who worked in her father's photographic studio and watch and jewellery shops in Portland (1854) & Hamilton (1858-1867) in Victoria, and Commercial Street ...
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 ...
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 and sculptor, the only woman in any of the Australian colonies known to have modelled large-scale sculptures. She was successful enough to retire on ...