John Rider Roberts, landscape painter, illustrator, surveyor and architect, was closely associated with the Illustrated Sydney News (1853-1855; 1863-1868). His obituary in the Illustrated Sydney ...
19th century painter, sculptor and civil servant, whose pre-Raphaelite type medallion portraits of several associates and family members were exhibited at the Royal Academy, London. ...
A successful surveyor and engineer as well as a painter and a sketcher, whose move to Australia was significant to his artistic output, beginning with ...
A well-connected colonial official for most of his life, Solly was an accomplished sketcher and watercolourist with representation in significant collections.
Oil Painter, art teacher and proprietor, with her husband, of an élite ladies' college in Melbourne. Vieusseux's portrait of painter Eugene von Guérard is held ...
Woodhouse became best known for painting every Melbourne Cup winner for more than thirty years, from 1861. During a long, successful and prolific career, he ...
Like so many artists of the period, Ball's job as a civil engineer allowed him to travel throughout South Australia recording scenes of outback life ...
Watercolorist, architect, surveyor, civil engineer, schoolmaster and entrepreneur born in London. Browne was convicted of forging money orders and sentenced to ten years transportation arriving ...
Daughter of Judge Francis Burgess, Ellen visited Norfolk Island for a few months in 1846 with her father. While there she documented the landscape - ...
Professional photographer, naturalist, ornithologist and publican, known as 'Professor' Hall he was one of Adelaide's leading photographers in the mid 1800s. He ran his own ...
Engraver, lithographer, professional photographer, cartographer and publisher, arrived in Melbourne in 1842 and began to produce maps and other official documents for the Victorian government. ...
Watercolour painter, architect, engineer, administrator and police commissioner, between 1850 and 1863 he worked in Fremantle WA where he designed some significant buildings. He also ...
Engraver, lithographer and grocer, Hentschel arrived in Melbourne in 1849 where he ran engraving and lithography businesses until 1854. No examples of his work seem ...
Colonial-era sketcher, architect and clergyman, he published various books on Australia, Methodism in the Australian colonies and ecclesiastical architecture that were illustrated with his own ...
A painter and amateur photographer John Hunter Kerr was particularly interested in recording the local Aboriginal people. His book 'Glimpses of Life in Victoria by ...
Like his father and four siblings William King sketched. His pencil drawing 'My Tent at Major's Creek, Braidwood, 1852' shows the interior of his tent ...
Scottish naturalist who made partial sketches to accompany his writings while travelling to Australia, New Guinea, South America and the South Pacific.