Nineteenth-century American-born photographer who emigrated to Australia. Duryea worked in various states, but mainly South Australia. He became a leading photographer of his day, particularly ...
Henry Tolman Dwight was a professional photographer, bookseller and publisher. In 1858 he advertised in Melbourne Directory as a 'Daguerrean and Photographic artist'. Dwight exhibited ...
Although the goldfields drew Antoine Fauchery to Australia, it is as a writer and photographer that he made most impression, eventually combining both of these ...
Ffarington recorded the natural world of Western Australia and its indigenous inhabitants while serving with the 51st Regiment in Western Australia bewteen 1843-47. His sketches ...
Professional photographer, botanist and businessman, he ran a photographic business in Sydney, 1857-1859. He specialised in coloured collodiotype portraits which resembled painted miniatures on ivory.
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 ...