Female colonial painter and embroiderer who taught indigenous children literacy in her Sunday school at Parramatta, while exerting considerable influence on her father, the Reverend, ...
Elizabeth (Eliza) Shaw was a botanical painter and writer as well as an excellent pianist and needlewoman. She arrived with her family in Western Australia ...
Painter, journalist and convict from a well connected family. Transported to Hobart Town in 1837. His many portraits provide pictorial documentation of personalities in Hobart ...
A painter and composer, Graves worked in a variety of roles and jobs while living in Tasmania, advertising his various skills that included painting, composing, ...
Nineteenth-century Polish-born sketcher and lithographer, among many other occupations in a chequered career. He made many lithographs of Australian subjects, not always his own work.
Despite his reputation as an explorer, Charles Sturt was also a keen sketcher who drew early admiration from the Duke of Wellington, whose portrait Sturt ...
Self-taught portrait painter and decorative artist of Tasmania during the mid 1800s. Linus Miller said about him: 'Mr Lempriere was one of those rare specimens ...
Colonial Architect of NSW, came to Sydney in March 1830. National Portrait Gallery holds a pair of miniatures in watercolour on ivory of Mortimer and ...
Richard Read junior was a miniature, portrait and historical painter. Although by no means the only portrait painter in the colony, Read's career was one ...
Lithographer, engraver, printer and surveyor born in England. Resident of Western Australia, Tasmania and NSW he designed and engraved the first signed armorial bookplates produced ...
Captain Fewson's watercolour view of Kangaroo Island (1837) is the earliest surviving visual record of the first South Australian settlers' inhospitable landing place.
The self-styled 'Amateur Poet Laureate' of Victoria, Kentish owned and published the 'Sydney Times' from 1834-1838 which doubtless featured his own poems, drawings and engravings. ...
A painter, lithographer, art teacher and clerk. He came to Australia to serve a life sentence for larceny however was granted leave and began working ...
John Septimus Roe was sketcher, surveyor and naval officer. Together with Captain J.G. Bremer they established a settlement and took possession of the northern coast ...
Sketcher, clergyman and geologist born in England. Resident of NSW Clarke's fame derives chiefly from his contributions to the geological knowledge of Australia.
Colonial Tasmanian engraver, amateur photographer, newspaper editor and merchant mariner. As the editor of the Cornwall Chronicle, Goodwin regularly upset his readers and members of ...