Jesuit priest who pursued cultural interests along with his commitment to the natural sciences. There is some suggestion that he is the J.I.B who signed ...
Despite living mostly in New Zealand, Barraud spent several years in Victoria and in 1854 he exhibited several paintings, all of New Zealand scenes, at ...
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 ...
H. Power Le Poer Bookey was an accomplished amateur photographer and gumleaf painter and a respected police officer. Bookey's noted interest in spiritualism was undoubtedly ...
Born in London, Gilks led a tumultuous career shifting between self employment and working for the Crown Lands Department. During this time he exhibited his ...
Lithographic artist, engraver and draughtsman, very little original work by Hamel is recorded apart from his many illuminated addresses. Hamel, as Hamel & Ferguson, illuminated ...
Illustrator, cartoonist and writer, spent five years in Victoria, 1840-45. He left a pictorial record, sometimes comic, of the early settlement and Aboriginal life in ...
Painter, from 1842 to the 1860s she lived on Phillip Island, Victoria where she painted botanical watercolours. At the 1866 Melbourne Intercolonial Exhibition Henderson's oil ...
a sketcher, magistrate and vigneron. Peake's familiarity with aspects of the English Gothic Revival in architecture informed the construction of Adelaide's Cathedral of St Francis ...
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 ...
Melbourne sketcher reputedly of French descent. Cannan is best known for her meticulous pencil sketches were in the Victorian picturesque style of houses, landscapes and ...
Nineteenth-century American-born photographer who emigrated to Australia. Duryea worked in various states, but mainly South Australia. He became a leading photographer of his day, particularly ...
Henry Tolman Dwight was a professional photographer, bookseller and publisher. In 1858 he advertised in Melbourne Directory as a 'Daguerrean and Photographic artist'. Dwight exhibited ...
Although the goldfields drew Antoine Fauchery to Australia, it is as a writer and photographer that he made most impression, eventually combining both of these ...
Illuminator, ornamental penman, sign-writer, plasterer, soldier and deserter, made elaborate pen, pencil and wash illuminations of flags and ships in Hobart Town.