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 ...
Best known in New Zealand as the Prussian-born adventurer and daring guerrilla-type fighter, and for the intricately detailed watercolours recording the events of the Waikato ...
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 ...
Sarah Ann Fogg lived variously in Germany, Italy, South Africa and Tasmania and had many opportunities for studying the great Western works of Europe. It ...
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 ...
Like his father, Graves was a noted eccentric. He stood for Parliament several times unsuccessfully but continued to be passionate in helping the surviving Tasmanian ...
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 ...
Sketcher and watercolourist who spent about eighteen months in Australasia from 1852. Three of his sketchbooks are in the Mitchell Library, State Library of New ...
English colonial male lithographer, watercolourist, and draughtsman. His diverse career included writing and illustrating children's books, teaching, publishing newspapers, public speaking and founding music and ...
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 ...
Stewart, John Tiffin, was a sketcher, surveyor and engineer, who was in the 1866 Melbourne Intercolonial Exhibition as a colonial engineer who provided the sketch ...