Charlotte McNeilly scandalised her family in 1847 by eloping with an illiterate Irish Catholic coachman who worked on the family estate. They were, however, convinced ...
Painted watercolour scenes around the Port Macquarie area. Her work, described as 'spirited' and 'lively', depicted subjects such as a dismounted trooper fighting a tribal ...
This diverse artist practised as a painter, lithographer and professional photographer. His works encompassed portrait, landscape and still life genres. Exhibiting in Adelaide, Melbourne and ...
Watercolourist and naval officer. N.G. Arguimbau painted 'H.M.S. Iris' in 1857 when the ship was serving at the Australia Station. He later settled with his ...
Professional photographer and photo-lithographer born in Scotland. A resident of Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide, Crawford was possibly the first photographer in Australia to provide original ...
An Irish watercolourist and surveyor who arrived in Australia in the early 1860s and married the natural history artist Helena Scott. He died after contracting ...
Colonial era Danish-born scene-painter, cartoonist and soldier. Habbe's scenes painted for the Christmas pantomimes at the Opera House rivalled those of John Hennings at the ...
Joseph Jefferson was a landscape and scene-painter and an actor. He was born in 1829 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Jefferson made his stage debut when he ...
Painter and explorer, was born in Pembrokeshire, Wales on 31 January 1829. In 1844 Murphy was appointed one of the four European members of Leichhardt's ...
Painter, painted the oil Wanderers on the Moon auctioned by Deutscher-Menzies among its Australian and International Pantings, Sculpture and Works on Paper at Melbourne on ...
Despite ill-health and colour-blindness, George Sutherland was the father of eight children and a prolific artmaker. He concentrated more on sketching due to his impairment, ...
Pastoralist who sketched various subjects including Aboriginal portraits, homesteads and Australian fauna. Tindal drowned aged 25 while attempting to cross the Clarence River in NSW. ...