Catherine Elizabeth (Kate) Sheppard was mainly known as a portrait painter, although she also painted altar pieces. In 1869 she gained public recognition for her ...
Arriving in Melbourne in the 1860s, William Bear quickly found himself employment as a photographer with William Insull Burman before setting up his own photography ...
A painter, she became well known as a copyist, exhibiting in Melbourne and Sydney. Her work was purchased by wealthy colonials to decorate their English ...
painter and sculptor, the only woman in any of the Australian colonies known to have modelled large-scale sculptures. She was successful enough to retire on ...
Daplyn was an English born painter, art teacher, journalist, and arts administrator. Although his work is little known today, he was an important early advocate ...
Joseph Nixon emigrated with his family from Birmingham to South Australia in 1855. For a time, Joseph and his brothers worked together as photographers under ...
A professional photographer, born in Ballinasloe, Ireland. She was a founding name partner in Melbourne's leading photographic firm of Johnstone, O'Shannessy (sic) & Co. (1864-93). ...
Scene-painter, journalist, politician and businessman born in London. Resident of Melbourne, Victoria he painted theatrical scenery to pay for his education.
Samuel Edmonds was a landscape painter who exhibited some of his work at Victorian Artists' Society exhibitions during the first decade of the twentieth century. ...
Nineteenth-century professional photographer, who exhibited several views of Melbourne and its suburbs in the form of 'instantaneous stereographs' at the Melbourne Intercolonial Exhibition of 1866.
Professional photographer, was born in Germany. Known as the first person to successful attempt the representation of the 'native blacks truthfully as well as artistically'. ...
Henry Rielly established his career and reputation in Victoria but his work took on an added signficiance when he came to live in regional Queensland ...