A portrait painter and miniaturist, J. B. East's best known work is his oil portrait of Jamaican boatman, Billy Blue. His lively watercolours of Europeans ...
Emmons had a distinguished naval career and served as lieutenant on Wilkes round-the-world exploration expedition. His wash drawing of three Aborigines in Sydney in 1839 ...
Englehard's watercolour 'My Daughters Victoria and Ann, Perth, Australia. 1838' is perhaps more likely to be Perth, Tasmania as no Englehard is listed as living ...
A teacher who advertised in 1835 that he would be opening an 'Academy for young gentlemen' in Launceston, Van Diemen's Land, where drawing would be ...
A scene-painter and carpenter who painted the scenery for performances at the Theatre Royal in 1833 and who redecorated the auditorium of the Royal Victoria ...
Colonial Sydney sketcher and medical practitioner. Fowles is known for his detailed diaries, containing both written and sketched representations of Sydney life.
Cartographer and sailor, kept a log-book on board the whaling ship Hamilton in 1839-41. It includes two pages 'of the winds, weather, currents' of the ...
Sketcher(?), author and surgeon, was a surgeon from Bengal, India. In 1832 He published "Observations on the Colonies of New South Wales and Van Diemen's ...
Portraitist and teacher, she lived and taught in Tasmaina 1831-c1838. Back in England, she painted oil portraits of the Western Australian settlers John and Elizabeth ...
Watercolourist and master mariner, was master of the Socrates, which visited Portland, Victoria in about 1836. There he painted a watercolour, 'View of Portland Bay', ...