Irish colonial female artist who turned from exhibiting her oils, watercolours, pencil and crayon drawings of biblical themes towards teaching. Between 1864 and 1875, she ...
Although best-known as an architect, William Archer was also a talented botanical artist. He assisted Dr Joseph Hooker at Kew Gardens with the 'Florae Tasmaniae' ...
Alfred D. Douglass was a sketcher, businessman and newspaper proprietor. He came from Scotland to Van Diemen's Land in 1835. Douglass was a proprietor of ...
Nineteenth-century professional photographer.Dunn's photographs were claimed to have won the firm of Batchelder and O'Neill its later artistic reputation.
The multi-talented Eustace painted scenes of historically important events in north-eastern Victoria. His landscape paintings on gum leaves earned him the title 'Bush Artist' and ...
As well as developing a thriving timber export industry, Fenton found time for sketching and producing views of Tasmania which were published in Melbourne newspapers ...
As tutor to John Cotton, he used his employer's photographic equipment to make daguerreotype portraits but later moved to Geelong to work as a surveyor. ...
Painter, engraver, lithographer and photographer, born in England and moved to the Ballarat goldfields in 1853. Taught art in Melbourne in the late 1870s-mid 1880s ...
Watercolourist, wrote 'Scenes during a Passage from England' which describes in verse the events of the voyage to Australia and is illustrated with watercolour drawings.
Professional jeweller, smith, sculptor, engraver and diesinker of Danish origin. Resided and worked in Sydney and later Melbourne, is distinguished for his incorporation of Australian ...