Primarily a poet, McCrae kept a diary and sketched; his work was influenced by the Indigenous population at Arthur's Seat on the Mornington Peninsula. His ...
Professional photographer, saddler and pharmacist, he owned a photographic studios at Windsor, NSW, and later Inverell, NSW and worked as a travelling photographer throughout regional ...
William Wackenbarth Short was a painter and professional photographer. He came to Melbourne in 1852. Short applied for the position of artist on the ill-fated ...
Professional photographer, chemist and actor. Arrived in Australia as a gold-digger before settling in New Zealand where he opened the Wellington Ambrotype Portrait Gallery and ...
Lithographer, 1800s, commissioned mainly brewers' show cards and whisky labels, but he did also lithograph all the plates in the three series of Dangerous Snakes ...
painter and clerk. Arrived in Western Australia as a convict in 1854. A series of twelve pencil and watercolour sketches of Aborigines are attributed to ...
Although Florence received little formal training she was exhibiting at the Royal Academy, London, by her late teens. Migrating permanently in 1873, Florence's paintings seem ...
Scene painter and stage designer for various London and Sydney based theatre companies. Wilson also painted Australian coastal scenes, rural English landscapes and views in ...
Tasmanian born watercolourist, Gedye started exhibiting her works after moving to Sydney and marrying. Her works were sent to prestigious European exhibitions and competed against ...
Painter and decorative artist, after arriving in Australia her family settled in the Goulburn River Valley where her friendly contact with the local Aboriginal people ...