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Curtis, William
Natural history artist and teacher, accompanied the New South Wales colonial geologist, Samuel Stutchbury on a geological and mineralogical survey of the colony.
Dalton, Edwin
A prominent society photographer, teacher to Queen Victoria and inventor of the 'Biotype'. His talent for portraiture was such 'you could almost speak to' his ...
Davis, W.
Painter, professional photographer and house painter. Exhibited work in Sydney in 1847 and in London in 1862. May also have been J. Davies.
Deering, Henry
Henry Deering was a scenic artist and theatrical producer. In 1851 he was credited with painting the moving diorama introduced into the pantomime he produced ...
Delohery, Cornelius
Colonial artist, arrived in Australia as a public servant but was dismissed for insubordination, which he sought to clear himself of by letters of petition, ...
Denison, Mary Charlotte
Sketcher, daughter of Sir William Thomas Denison, governor of Tasmania in 1846-54, governor of New South Wales and governor-general of the Australian colonies in 1855-61, ...
Dennis, Joseph Tracton, b.
Irish-born colonial artist who began his career in Sydney painting portraits and scenes for the theatre. In later years he painted historical and religious subjects ...
Dickenson, Walter
A professional photographer, briefly a resident of Hobart in the mid 1850s. He made portraits of a number of local identities.
Dickes, W.
W. Dickes was a sketcher. He produced a view of Moreton Bay, Brisbane, c.1852.
Douglas,
Mr Douglas was a scene painter. In 1855 and 1866 he worked for Sydney's new Prince of Wales Theatre. In 1869 Douglas worked for the ...
Downing, Amos
Amos Downing was an artist living in Victoria. He was listed in the Melbourne Directory in 1851.
Doyle, J. T.
Watercolourist, compiled an album entitled 'J.T. Doyle's Sketches in Australia' consisting of forty-five watercolours dating from about 1854 to 1863 which depict landscape views and ...
Drake, F.
F. Drake was an illuminator. Drake engrossed and illuminated a memorial presented to Samuel Moses by his congregation at the Hobart Town Synagogue, Tasmania (1858). ...
Drayton, Joseph
Natural history painter and engraver whose sketches were in a number of natural history volumes, travelled to Sydney in 1839 under Charles Wilkes in the ...
Drury, Byron, b.
Naval officer and sketcher. Served on the Alligator when the ship was at Port Essington (Northern Territory) in 1838-1839. Later drew a pen-and-ink view, 'Sydney ...
Du, J.
Sketcher, put this name to a pencil and white drawing, 'Toll Bar Melbourne and Princes Bridge in the Distance' (c.1854).
Duke, Anne, b.
Anne Duke was one of the women who sewed the miners' flag used in the Eureka Stockade. She was nine months pregnant at the time ...
Dunn, Edward Carey
Edward Carey Dunn was a sketcher and settler. He lived in Victoria. Dunn was one of the 'early colonists' photographed by Thomas Chuck in 1872.
Durand, I.
Durand was a watercolourist.
Duryea, Sanford, b.
Sanford Duryea was a professional photographer. He apparently worked with his brother Townsend Duryea in the Melbourne photographic studios of Messrs Duryea & McDonald (1852/1855). ...