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Gilfillan, John, b. 1793
After a tumultuous childhood running away to sea, being shipwrecked and press ganged for 8 years, Gilfillan studied art and made it his career. He ...
Irvine, John, b. 1805
As a painter and portraitist, John Irvine made a name for himself in Scotland as well as Adelaide and Dunedin. Actively involved in art societies, ...
Opie, Edward, b. 1809
Painter, scene-painter, theatre director and actor. Born in England he arrived in Australia in 1839 and worked throughout South Australia, Victoria, and Tasmania. He reputedly ...
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 ...
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Gill, Samuel, b. 1818
Colonial era watercolourist, lithographer and presumably photographer who documented exploration and the Gold Rush in Australia.
Knights, Samuel S., b. 1818
The son of a London sporting print publisher, Samuel S. Knights arrived in Australia in 1852. Soon after his arrival he became known as a ...
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 ...
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.
Weidenbach, Max, b. 1823
Painter, Egyptologist and Prussian consul to South Australia. A watercolour sketch of Glen Osmond in 1849 from the Chimney Hill showing the Miners' Arms Hotel, ...
Hutton, Francis Frederick, b. 1826
Francis Hutton lived an adventurous life, cut short by shipwreck within a day's journey of Liverpool. He was an artist, portraitist, explorer and gold digger.
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 ...
Jefferson, Joseph, b. 1829
Joseph Jefferson was a landscape and scene-painter and an actor. He was born in 1829 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Jefferson made his stage debut when he ...
Fry, John V., b. 1831
Scene-painter and actor, worked for various theatrical companies creating sets in theatres primarily in the cities of Melbourne and Adelaide.
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 ...
Stone, James Doveton, b. 1831
Landscape painter who resided in Melbourne and Adelaide from the late 1850s to the late 1880s. Stone exhibited on many occasions with the South Australian ...
Tannert, Louis, b. 1833
A painter, who was born and educated in Germany. Not long after arriving to Australian shores he become curator of the National Gallery of South ...
Peirce, Augustus Baker, b. 1840
Widely travelled Colonial era American-born sketcher, comic illustrator, caricaturist, painter, scene-painter, professional photographer, sailor, theatrical performer and entrepreneur.
Johnson, Joseph Colin Francis, b. 1848
Late Colonial-era South Australian painter, cartoonist, illustrator, journalist and politician. In 1884 he entered Parliament as Member for Onkaparinga and became Minister for Education in ...