Like other members of the King family Robert kept a sketchbook of drawings and watercolours. His sketch books, held in the Mitchell Library, contain drawings ...
Illuminator, ornamental penman, sign-writer, plasterer, soldier and deserter, made elaborate pen, pencil and wash illuminations of flags and ships in Hobart Town.
John Mathieson Sharp was a professional photographer as well as a dentist. He had a photographic partnership with Frederick Frith. Many of their photographs were ...
Deputy Master of the Royal Mint in both Sydney and later Melbourne. Practiced wet-plate (collodion) photography. Exhibited at the second photographic conversazione of the Philosophical ...
Painter, Egyptologist and Prussian consul to South Australia. A watercolour sketch of Glen Osmond in 1849 from the Chimney Hill showing the Miners' Arms Hotel, ...
Amateur photographer, watchmaker and optician, his subjects were mainly views of Hobart and he conducted some early experiments in colour printing. His brother, Alfred, was ...
Colonial male watercolourist who travelled around South Australia and Queensland in 1868 as part of a world tour. Allen painted landscapes as he went and ...
Wurundjeri Ngurungaeta (headman) and artist, William Barak created over fifty distinctive charcoal drawings with natural ochres and water colour of purely Aboriginal subjects. A politician ...
Despite also being a portrait painter, it was as a professional photographer that Blackwood received the most acclaim. In 1858 he took 11 imperial size, ...
William Paul Dowling was a painter, engraver and photographer. In 1849 he was transported to Hobart Town as a political prisoner. Dowling worked in partnership ...
A sketcher, actor and entomologist, Edwards worked in Australia as an actor and made natural history sketches. He ultimately owned one of the largest insect ...
Painter, engraver and teacher, in, England and arrived in Adelaide in 1854 where he became very influential in the local art scene. Hill specialised in ...
Thomas Biddulph Hutton was a painter, teacher and clergyman. Queensland views attributed to him are dated 1858 and are held in Mitchell Library, State Library ...