Commons was a monumental mason, trained in Europe, who was commissioned to carve four allegorical figures for Parliament House, Melbourne, though it never eventuated due ...
Sketcher and watercolourist. Resident of Victoria, NSW and Tasmania. Cowie painted Regency-style specimens of wildflowers, some of which were showsn in the 1866 Melbourne Intercolonial ...
Colonial watercolourist known for one work, New Town Bay [Tasmania], with St John's Church, the Queen's Orphan Home and with Mount Wellington in the Distance ...
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 ...
Arrived in Australia in 1863 found work as a governess sponsored by the Female Middle Class Emigration Society. Later became Governess to the Allen family ...