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 ...
Watercolour painter and politician, settled in Risdon Cove which was the site of the foundation of European settlement in Van Diemen's Land. Gregson launched his ...
Sketcher, natural historian, commissioner of police and police magistrate, was almost certainly a bastard son of the future King William IV. He made pen and ...
Stutchbury's artistic talent saw him illustrate his many journals with pen and ink sketches and some watercolours of topographical,zoological subjects as well as sketches of ...
Leading a peripatetic life, John Boultbee frequented a number of British 19th century outposts throughout his travels, including Australia and kept a journal of his ...
Titian Ramsay Peale was a painter, naturalist, amateur photographer and museum curator. He was born in Philadelphia, North America, in 1799. Peale was appointed to ...
Richard Rishworth, listed in the Ballarat Directory in 1857 as artist and decorator, lived at Bakery Hill, Ballarat East, Victoria. He was also Secretary for ...
Edmund Edgar worked in London as a house painter and engraver before being convicted of robbery and sentenced to transportation for life. He used several ...
Described by a contemporary as 'a gentleman of the highest talents but without one atom of common sense', Frankland took part in exploratory missions in ...