Often remembered as the matriarch of the artistically gifted Boyd family, Emma Minnie was an artist in her own right, exhibiting prolifically in Australia, and ...
Mary Jane and two of her sisters were avid papier-mâchè modellers, creating dozens of wax implanted, hair coated models of sheep, kangaroos and cattle.
Oil and watercolour painter and miniaturist, was born in Hobart, Tasmania. She was a rapid worker, painting up to three miniatures a week, landscapes, flowers ...
Family members and professional photographers, all three worked in George Street, Sydney, at various times from 1865. One of their more unusual commissions was to ...
Architectural draughtsman, architect and inventor. Austin designed the invitation card for the opening of the first Federal Parliament in 1901 and as an employee of ...
John Watt Beattie was a collector and photographer in turn-of-the-century Tasmania. Three years before his death in 1930, Launceston City Council purchased his collection of ...