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 Colonial-era cartoonist, illustrator and scene-painter, Alfred Clint contributed works to the Ballarat and Sydney editions of Punch among others. Equally well-known for his work ...
The "gentleman artist", Dibdin is considered Rockhampton's first resident painter, also an actor, an estate agent, and a gold buyer. Dibdin was the founding secretary ...
Anthony Fouchard was born in 1843. Fouchard was, according to his advertisements, a gold and silversmith, practical watch and clockmaker, and working jeweller. He arrived ...
George John Freeman was a professional photographer and photographic showman. He arrived at South Australia in 1861. Throughout his professional career Freeman enthusiastically experimented with ...
Gregory worked in Auckland where he opened a photographic studio, painted landscapes and still lifes and carved pew ends and altars for New Zealand churches.
Painter, art teacher, pastoralist and utopian socialist, Hack taught drawing in Adelaide from 1868 to 1873. He travelled widely and a surviving sketchbook records foreign ...
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 ...
A dentist, sketcher and amateur photographer. He exhibited some photographs at a South Australian exhibition in 1859. Although he spent his time working as a ...
Richard Wingfield Stuart, painter, is attributed with an oil on canvas painting inscribed on the stretcher in ink, 'Kangaroo Hunt near Braidwood, New South Wales ...
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 ...
Amie Benham entered her landscape watercolours in several Adelaide exhibitions in the late 1860s/early 1870s and garnered various prizes and acclaim for her artworks.
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 ...
Professional photographer, worked with Andrew Chandler and Albert Lomer in Sydney before opening his own Gallery of Photographic Art in 1866. He may have learned ...
Sketcher, architect and surveyor. In 1865 McMinn was involved in a disastrous expedition to northern Australia to map the Adelaide River. To return to civilisation ...