A miniature painter and engraver, W.W. Thwaites (1814-1888)and sons established themselves as professional photographers in West and South Australia in the 1860s. However, despite such ...
Gibbes's paintings were watercolours of well-known scenery in Victoria although he also showed views of picturesque places in NSW, New Zealand and Scotland. He was ...
Samuel Douglas Smith Huyghue was a sketcher and public servant. His watercolour drawing titled 'Eureka Stockade' is held at Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, in Victoria.
Jenner Plomley was an amateur photographer and medical practitioner. From about 1857 he lived on the Hunter's Hill peninsula. In 1862 Dr Plomley showed his ...
Although seeking his fortune in the Victorian goldfields, Edward La Trobe Bateman instead drifted into work as an illustrator and landscape designer. One of his ...
Amateur photographer, farmer and magistrate. Resident of Western Australia his photographs of Fremantle in the late 1860s are considered to be among the best photographs ...
Although he trained as an optician, John Flavelle apparently had the aptitude to earn his living as a photographer, watchmaker, jeweller and general importer. Flavelle ...
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 ...
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.
Taxidermist in partnership with her daughter Ada Jane Rohu. For over forty years (1860-1900) Jane Tost and Ada Jane Rohu were the most consistent and ...
A well travelled painter, in 1876 Carse was regarded as 'perhaps the best painter in the colony' with his landscapes, depicting locations from all around ...
Charles Drinkwater was a professional photographer. In 1868 he established C. Drinkwater's Chromo Gallery in Sydney. The person with the same name and surname who ...
Eaton was a lithographer and publican. He worked mainly in Queensland, producing lithographs of Australian flora and fauna and portraits based on photographs.