On an expedition of the Murray and Darling rivers, Krefft made over 500 drawings of specimens and Aboriginal subjects. Later he became assistant curator at ...
Originally from England, Philp was a painter, lithographer, architectural draughtsman and amateur actor who migrated to Melbourne in 1853. He lived there until 1865 when ...
Painter and professional photographer, showed artworks in fourth Annual Exhibition of Fine Arts at Melbourne in 1864, and in the Ballarat Mechanics Institute Exhibition, and ...
Henry Pares Venables was a sketcher who travelled to Victoria from England in 1853 with Henry Kingsley, both lured by the goldrush. Three sketches by ...
Thomas Wright was a painter, professional photographer and prospector. According to William Moore, Wright was a pupil of the popular English landscape painter and Royal ...
Considered by contemporary critics to be a 'poet-painter' of colonial subjects. His Turner-esque technique nevertheless came to be considered overly stylised which may explain why, ...
Photographer known as Fred Kruger won a number of awards and gained international recognition for his panoramas. In 1877 he was commissioned by the Victorian ...
McDonald ran a successful photography business in Melbourne - shifting location every few years as partnerships changed or he outgrew his premises. He produced numerous ...
Painter, lithographer(?), draughtsman and zoo director, migrated to Adelaide from Ireland in the 1850s, won many prizes at the South Australian Society of Arts with ...
A sketcher, photographer, lithographer, carver, printer and stationary manufacturer. Upon arriving in Ballarat, Niven purchased a lithographic press from Alfred Ronalds for £40 - said ...
Joseph Anderson Panton was a painter, etcher and police magistrate. He mapped the Yarra Valley while he was magistrate at Heidelberg. Panton Hill is named ...
English born painter, lithographer and art teacher who exhibited widely in London and Melbourne. A major posthumous exhibition of Parson's work was held at Decoration ...
Landscape painter who resided in Melbourne and Adelaide from the late 1850s to the late 1880s. Stone exhibited on many occasions with the South Australian ...