Engaged as a Royal Engineer to superintend the works for the proposed convict establishment in Western Australia. Du Cane's sketches and paintings of exploratory expeditions, ...
Fitzgerald was a prolific botanical illustrator. His plates in Australian Orchids (1875-1894) brought him international fame. He also produced drawings of native flowers and ladybirds.
Sketcher, amateur photographer, writer, explorer, scientist and public servant, was born in England and came to Victoria in 1852. He became an authority on the ...
A lithographer, painter, engineer, and a civil servant, Jones worked for a number of government bureaus. He exhibited eight watercolours and one oil painting with ...
On an expedition of the Murray and Darling rivers, Krefft made over 500 drawings of specimens and Aboriginal subjects. Later he became assistant curator at ...
A prolific watercolourist painter and sketcher, Lloyd is known as 'Australia's peripatetic artist'. He travelled indefatigably throughout his long life, recording many landscapes in Australia, ...
Travelling photographer, scene-painter, architect, showman and actor. Merlin created painted and photographic 'panoramas', and extensively photographed the houses and public buildings of many regional areas ...
Originally from England, Philp was a painter, lithographer, architectural draughtsman and amateur actor who migrated to Melbourne in 1853. He lived there until 1865 when ...
William Reay, painter, art teacher, poet and coal-miner, migrated to Australia in response to the colonial success of his painting, 'Adam and Eve Expelled from ...