Late colonial era Italian/English sculptor, who worked in Sydney during the 1870s to 1890s. Fontana received an Hon. Mention for his work in 1888/1889.
Professional photographer, naturalist, ornithologist and publican, known as 'Professor' Hall he was one of Adelaide's leading photographers in the mid 1800s. He ran his own ...
Engraver, lithographer, professional photographer, cartographer and publisher, arrived in Melbourne in 1842 and began to produce maps and other official documents for the Victorian government. ...
Painter and statistician, he was much more recognised for his work as a statistician than as an artist. He became the most significant Australian statisticians ...
Watercolour painter, architect, engineer, administrator and police commissioner, between 1850 and 1863 he worked in Fremantle WA where he designed some significant buildings. He also ...
Sketcher, photographer, engineer and explorer, he came to Adelaide in 1840 as a surveyor. The drawings and paintings Henderson made on an 1843 expedition to ...
Engraver, lithographer and grocer, Hentschel arrived in Melbourne in 1849 where he ran engraving and lithography businesses until 1854. No examples of his work seem ...
Colonial-era sketcher, architect and clergyman, he published various books on Australia, Methodism in the Australian colonies and ecclesiastical architecture that were illustrated with his own ...
A painter and amateur photographer John Hunter Kerr was particularly interested in recording the local Aboriginal people. His book 'Glimpses of Life in Victoria by ...
Like his father and four siblings William King sketched. His pencil drawing 'My Tent at Major's Creek, Braidwood, 1852' shows the interior of his tent ...
Scottish naturalist who made partial sketches to accompany his writings while travelling to Australia, New Guinea, South America and the South Pacific.
Draughtsman, etcher, sculptor and naval officer, made three brief visits to Australia between 1842 and 1846, although his subsequent career in France is far better ...
Raworth could never stay still, his migrations were frequent and his residence anywhere rarely exceeded three years. He shifted between New Zealand, Australia and England ...
Amateur photographer and scientist, a professor at the University of Sydney, also active in a number of social issues such as water, tertiary education for ...
A better photographer than businessman, Stephen Spurling was admired for his sensitive portraits. An album containing some of his work so impressed the Duke of ...
coach-builder, who may have sketched the scene where he intervened in the attempted assassination of the Duke of Edinburgh at Clontarf Beach, Sydney on 12 ...