Sketcher, explorer, journalist, miner and politician. Hodgkinson had a varied career encompassing sailing, gold prospecting, participation in the Burke and Wills relief expedition and exploration ...
An artist and a teacher, originally from England, via New Zealand. Two watercolours were purchased by Christie's and auctioned at Sotheby's,17 November 2002.
A popular painter and professional photographer who was highly visible in Melbourne society in the late Victorian period thanks in large part to his flamboyant ...
A photographer who won many awards and gained recognition for his photographic and watercolour portraits. He exhibited extensively within Australia as well as overseas and ...
Professional photographer, taught by brother Charles Percy Pickering. A travelling photographer specialised in photographing tombstones in rural NSW, 1870s-1880s. He is said to have photographed ...
William Pitt was a painter, amateur photographer and lawyer. His work was shown in the 1862-63 Hobart Town Art Treasures Exhibition. Pitt have been a ...
Prout was a portrait painter and professional photographer, the son of musical and artistic parents Maria and John Skinner Prout. He spent his professional career ...
John Richardson, painter and engraver, arrived at Port Phillip in the Clifton on 13 February 1850. His father was Moses Richardson, a well-known Newcastle antiquary, ...
An incredibly diverse artist who demonstrated skills in a wide array of materials and styles. After arriving in Victoria from New Zealand, Scott flirted with ...
Described in his obituary as 'leading exponent of the lithographic branch of the printing trade', Troedel, founder of the legacy of what eventually became the ...
James Archer kept a small sketchbook (c.1861-63) that consists mainly of drawings of people, most depicted in profile, including his brother, fellow artist Alexander Archer.
Sponsored by the London Female Middle Class Emigration Society, Emily Barlow arrived in Melbourne in 1862 with her sister Nancy with the intention of establishing ...
John Valentine Behl emigrated from Germany to New South Wales in about 1857 and worked briefly as a professional photographer in Elizabeth Street, Sydney - ...
Burkitt was a prolific watercolourist who made studies of the various Victorian districts in which he was stationed as a telegraph operator. His grandson donated ...
Portrait, landscape and transparency painter born in London. He worked in Brisbane, Rockhampton and Gympie in Queensland and 'obtained considerable celebrity as a portrait and ...
Scottish born painter, policeman, husband and father. He is known only for one work, 'Cameron's Farm, Myponga' (1866), a competent representation of contemporary rural life.
Thrice married George Braithwaite Phillips was an amateur photographer who, in 1852, was appointed as a clerk in the Colonial Secretary's Office. In 1880 Phillips ...