William Benson was an English Quaker who toured Australia in the late 1860s. His descriptive journals, of which there are seven volumes, are illustrated with ...
Late Colonial-era South Australian painter, cartoonist, illustrator, journalist and politician. In 1884 he entered Parliament as Member for Onkaparinga and became Minister for Education in ...
Nineteenth century painter, illuminator, draughtsman and agent, lived his entire life in South Australia and exhibited regularly with the South Australian Society of Arts. He ...
A nineteenth-century amateur sketcher who received numerous prizes for her work as a student. In the late 1890s Lewis was employed as drawing mistress at ...
A Melbourne born, prolific natural history painter with an international reputation. Her work was classified within the despised female 'hobby' of flower painting.
Josiah Hartley Shortman was a sketcher, modeller and plasterer. In 1865 and 1866 he won prizes at the exhibitions of the South Australian Society of ...
Sketcher, second daughter of Austin Forrest Wilshire, a Sydney merchant, and Eliza, née Pitt, married Frank Lord in Sydney 1871. Her undated pencil sketch on ...
An educator who brought drawing classes into the curriculum under her charge. Banks was appointed infant mistress at the Public School on Riley St in ...
Sketcher, writer and grazier, Hopkins was born in India and educated in England, before migrating to Victoria in 1865. He was an amateur artist and ...
A sketchbook by Emily Knight, dating from 1st January 1864, held in Tasmania's Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts contains pencil copies of British ...