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Backhouse, James, b. 1794
Only in Australia for six years, Backhouse kept extensive records of his experiences, which were then posthumously published in London. His observations have proven to ...
Gawler, George, b. 1795
After an active military career in the Napoleonic wars, Gawler was appointed governor of South Australia in 1838. It is thought he sketched a work ...
Sturt, Charles, b. 1795
Despite his reputation as an explorer, Charles Sturt was also a keen sketcher who drew early admiration from the Duke of Wellington, whose portrait Sturt ...
Frome, Edward Charles, b. 1802
A skilled amateur artist, Frome used his talents to create a career as a painter. His works portrayed the country as inherently beautiful and are ...
Murray, Alexander, b. 1803
Watercolourist, farmer, politician and manufacturer. In 1845 he took an exhibition, 'South Australia As It Is', to Scotland.
Nixon, Henry, b. 1805
A sketcher, surveyor and soldier. There is only one known work of his and the extent of his artistic career remains unknown.
Pelham, Lionel James, b. 1808
Lionel James Pelham was a sketcher and public servant. He was born in Kent in 1808. In 1875 he died at sea, near Darwin, in ...
Plush, John Saddington, b. 1808
South Australian sketcher, farmer and orchardist. The Art Gallery of South Australia holds a watercolour by Plush.
Jackson, John Alexander, b. 1809
Sketcher and public servant, was born in Scotland and came to Sydney, Australia in 1825 to be employed as a Government draughtsman. He moved between ...
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 ...
Lincolne, Abraham, b. 1815
Abraham Lincolne was a sketcher, writer, farmer and stock agent. He came to New South Wales in 1838 where he rented Fig Tree Farm at ...
Skipper, Frances Amelia, b. 1815
Nineteenth-century painter and sketcher, apparently without formal training, mainly a portraitist.
Skipper, John Michael, b. 1815
Colonial Adelaide painter, sketcher, cartoonist, writer and solicitor.
Wilson, Charles Algernon, b. 1818
Charles Algernon Wilson was not only a natural history painter and sketcher but also a solicitor, public servant and entomologist. In 1860 he was elected ...
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 ...
Nott, George, b. 1820
Nott was a sketcher, author and surgeon. None of his original artworks have been located nor were any published in his Bunyip publication due to ...
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 ...