Walker received little formal education, but as a young woman showed considerable talent in the art of modelling. She would become very well known for ...
Colonial male photographer whose diverse practice of producing wet-plate albumen prints, ambrotypes, alabastrine portraits and daguerreotypes seems to have existed for only two years before ...
Native colonial whose claim to fame as first-born Australian artist belied the fact he took up landscape only because of the threat of photography to ...
Retired army officer who came to Sydney in 1852. Wingate worked in the media of photography, painting and drawing. He exhibited a photographic panorama of ...
George Bayly followed in the family tradition of seafaring and sailed to the far corners of the British Empire. He kept meticulous diaries, including pen-and-ink ...
An undervalued member of the fateful Burke and Wills expedition, Ludwig Becker was an accomplished artist and naturalist whose contribution to the expedition has belatedly ...
While Richard Brydes Beechey painted a scene of Lt. Stokes discovering Victoria River, he is not known to have ever visited Australia though he travelled ...
Kapunda, South Australia's first resident general practitioner, Blood was also a keen amateur photographer who was said to submit most of his friends to the ...
Her album documents her life at St. Omer, Braidwood, and includes competent watercolours of insects and flowers - generally English ones from her garden - ...
Critics considered Fraser's work as proof of the healthy state of local art: 'If our amateurs can produce drawings of such feeling and such skill...we ...
Colonial portrait painter who lived and worked in Parramatta, NSW. He set up a successful portrait studio there and introduced the novel idea of payment ...
Engraver, schoolteacher, writer and poet, arrived at Hobart Town, Tasmania, from England in 1857. He produced a map of Hobart town, judged to be 'one ...
English female colonial sketcher who drew pictures of where she lived in Parramatta, and recorded her voyage to England in her journal. She posed for ...
With well developed careers as a journalist, lawyer and farmer, it seems that Nash's reputation as an artist, in particular as a sketcher, remains unclear. ...