As professional collaborators, James and William Freeman achieved great success with their quality portraits and innovative approach. Their unusually elongated studio enabled them to overcome ...
Well known for his cheerful and generous nature, Goupil had a passion for adventure and sailed as the official artist on Dumont d'Urville's expedition to ...
Elizabeth Irwin was a sketcher. She and her husband embarked for Western Australia when he was re-appointed commandant of the military forces. Soon after her ...
Lang was a settler originating from Scotland. His artistic exploits included sketching, photography and lithography. He occupied the property Terrinallum, near Mortlake, Victoria, between 1839 ...
Professional photographer and optical instrument manufacturer residing in Adelaide, South Australia during the 1840s. He died in a shipwreck in St Vincent's Gulf, South Australia, ...
William Nixon emigrated from Birmingham to South Australia in 1855. A gunsmith by trade, Nixon switched to a career in photography following his experience in ...
A miniature painter and engraver, W.W. Thwaites (1814-1888)and sons established themselves as professional photographers in West and South Australia in the 1860s. However, despite such ...
'Ballet dancer, pantomimist, gymnast, actor, scene painter, interior decorator, artist, theatre lessee, founder of a fire brigade and its first captain, and Deacon of the ...
British sketcher and naval officer who visited Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and New Hebrides in the 1860s. Wiseman recorded the places he visited in ink ...
Scottish male colonial sketcher and founder of the Launceston Examiner, Aikenhead's journal recording his emigration from London to Tasmania, with his only known drawings, has ...
Sketcher who trained as an engineer. Babbage was also an amateur photographer, architect, scientist and explorer. His pen-and-ink expedition sketches were shown in Adelaide at ...
The youngest of merchant and settler John Blaxland's 11 children, Mary Ellen Blaxland and her sisters were all encouraged to sketch by their mother and ...
Travelled extensively throughout New South Wales including the Hunter, Richmond River and Sydney. No sketches are known after his arrival in Australia.
Ornamental painter and decorator born in England. Resident of Melbourne, Victoria he was a painter of designs and murals on walls of houses and public ...
Painter of Irish origin, Duke produced numerous portraits, landscapes and lithographs. He also worked extensively as a scenery painter for various theatrical companies in Australia ...