Colonial-era amateur photographer, merchant and property developer who reportedly produced the first recorded photograph taken on Australian soil. After immigrating to Sydney from France, Joubert ...
Laishley was a natural history painter, lithographer and Congregational clergyman; a pupil of the painter and engraver Le Cocq. He was sent to New Zealand ...
Nineteenth-century amateur watercolourist. She is known from her sketch of Mt Wellington from Brighton, later identified as Brooksby (Pontville, Tasmania).
Female sketcher of landscapes and architecture who collected plants and lived in colonial Sydney and Queensland. She was encouraged to draw by her first governess ...
Painter, professional photographer, showman, author, balloonist, traveller, reporter and merchant,painted panoramas and portraits, settled at Maldon, Victoria.
John Botterill worked as a professional photographer and oil miniaturist in the mid-19th century in Victoria. In 1853 he was part of the organising committee ...
Oswald Walters Brierly was a well-respected marine and natural history painter whose works are held in many public and private collections in Australia and England.
Watercolour painter, writer, naval officer and settler. Resident of England, New Zealand and Australia, his sketches are more the work of a gentleman traveller interested ...
Regardless of whether he was painting a seashore scene on a mutton shoulder-blade, or showing his special skill in life-like and accurate natural history illustrations, ...
Influenced by his teacher John Skinner Prout and by Conrad Martens, Elyard favoured picturesque buildings, street scenes and landscapes. He was a colourful figure who ...
Oil painter and dressmaker, arrived in Sydney 1840 and ran a dressmaking/tailoring business with her husband in various NSW locations. She painted portraits in oils.
Colonial watercolour and miniature painter who married her former drawing teacher, George Milner Stephen, in 1940. Hindmarsh exhibited two watercolour drawings on cotton at the ...
Sketcher and botanist, he was naturalist and assistant surgeon on tan expedition to the Antarctic, 1839-1843. He visited Van Diemen's Land twice and sketched, landscapes, ...
Sketcher, engineer and pioneer pastoralist, known for his pencil and watercolour sketches of which most are sepia washes heightened with white, depicting rural landscapes. His ...