Victorian government botanist. Von Mueller took an interest in painting, sending his view of the Melbourne Botanical Gardens by Rasmiss to the 1869 Melbourne Public ...
Benjamin Pierce Batchelder arrived in Australia with two of his brothers, both fellow photographers, in 1856. He established a successful business in Bendigo where he ...
Professional photographer in Bendigo and Melbourne, Victoria. He was primarily a studio photographer but he also produced photographs of early business premises and public buildings ...
Professional photographer and entrepreneur born in London. Resident of Melbourne, Ballarat and Daylesford he documented the explorers and early colonists of Victoria. Much of Chuck's ...
A painter who worked in Tasmania, many of whose paintings were included in Sotheby's 'The Colonial Sale' in 1997. Some oil paintings were collaborations with ...
Surveyor, he explored much of the Northern Territory recommending what was then known as Palmerston as the capital, which was later renamed Darwin. He also ...
Sketcher and storekeeper, migrated from England and finally settled near Mudgee, NSW. In the mid 1850s he filled a number of sketchbooks with watercolour and ...
CGS Hirst was an itinerant artist who worked in south-eastern Queensland in the decade of the 1870 and produced delightful, naïve renderings largely of farm ...
Francis Hutton lived an adventurous life, cut short by shipwreck within a day's journey of Liverpool. He was an artist, portraitist, explorer and gold digger.
Colonial-era newspaper wood engraver, he was the last of the classical European-trained wood-engravers in Melbourne. His estate was sworn at £11,280, the bulk of which ...
Nineteenth-century professional photographer, watchmaker and jeweller, he worked in Melbourne and Adelaide, producing pannotypes (photographs on leather to send through the post) and full-length carte-de-visite ...
Kane was a schoolmaster and clergyman. He is responsible for the only known illustration of the original St Peter's Church of England at St Leonard's, ...
Lyttleton painted mostly racehorse portraits. He was a foundation member of the Victorian Academy of Arts and exhibited ten oils at the first and second ...
A painter of still-life and marine subjects who arrived in Melbourne during the gold rush. Before arriving in Australia, Stuart exhibited at various London institutions. ...