After two previous trips to Australia as a natural historian, George Bennett finally settled in Sydney in 1836 and worked as a medical practitioner. He ...
Bowen Bungaree is attributed as the first documented Aboriginal artist with the sketch Representation of a woman by a native of NSW, 1823. Bowan Bungaree ...
After she asked who would draw the plates on stone, her husband answered 'Why, you, of course!' Thus began a large series of hand-coloured lithographs ...
Elizabeth Acworth Prinsep is best known for editing her husband's letters into Journal of a Voyage from Calcutta to Van Diemen's Land, published in 1833. ...
Elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly and twice served short terms as premier. His fifteen known drawings in pencil, pen-and-ink and wash originally in ...
Thomas Woore was a sketcher, modeller, naval officer, surveyor and pastoralist. He visited Sydney for the first time in 1829. Woore's sketches of houses are ...
Colonial male tobacconist and sketcher whose only known work is a marine watercolour. Aldis is better known for his tobacco shop, which was a popular ...
A sketcher, FitzRoy served as a naval officer on the Beagle with Charles Darwin and was later influenced by the work of official expedition artist, ...
Lauvergne was from a family with no previous naval tradition. He first arrived in Australia on board the 'Astrolabe' for its 1826/1829 voyage of the ...