William Paul Dowling was a painter, engraver and photographer. In 1849 he was transported to Hobart Town as a political prisoner. Dowling worked in partnership ...
Painter, engraver and teacher, in, England and arrived in Adelaide in 1854 where he became very influential in the local art scene. Hill specialised in ...
Nineteenth century art and language teacher, exhibition organiser, theatrical entrepreneur and property developer he played a major part in expanding colonial Australian representation in international ...
Charles McArthur King, was a sketcher, pastoralist and magistrate. A sketchbook of coastal and landscape scenes, mostly of New Zealand, drawn between 1850 and 1899 ...
Neild was mainly a weekend sketcher whose sketchbooks predominantly included drawings of places around Melbourne. He is most renowned as a journalist and critic writing ...
Professional photographer, exhibited and well-recognised. Achievements include 'Perry-o-type' process, 1864; and telescopic photographs of 'the largest primary pictures of the moon', 1872.
Thomas Urquhart was a colonial era Victorian caricaturist, army officer(?) and remittance man(?). He was exiled to Australia after he married Mary Norrie. His hobby ...
Mickey of Ulladulla was an Aboriginal artist active in the ninetenth century on the south coast of NSW. Five of his paintings were included posthumously ...
Painter, landowner and viticulturalist born in Switzerland. Resident of Yering and Ivanhoe, Vic. for many years. De Castella is credited as being both a talented ...
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, ...
Keeping abreast of all the latest photographic inventions from the United States, Glaister's photographs were expensive but advertised as guaranteed never to fade.
Thomas Henry Huxley was a sketcher, amateur photographer, biologist, anthropologist, philosopher and scientific publicist. Appointed assistant surgeon and naturalist to HMS 'Rattlesnake' he was part ...
Nelson was a landscape painter, schoolteacher and police clerk. He painted prolifically as he travelled throughout Victoria, New South Wales and Tasmania.
A professional photographer, he is generally regarded as the major photographic recorder of Melbourne's growth from settlement to great city. Working as the official photographer ...
Professional photographer with several different studios in Sydney. Commissioned by NSW government in 1871 but was later bankrupt, then twice after retiring from photography in ...
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 ...
Richard Shepherd was a lithographer. He was a foundation member of the Victorian Academy of Arts in 1870. Shepherd also helped found the South Melbourne ...