Colonial female painter and drawer of the famous Macarthur family who documented her life in pictures that are now missing. Fortunately she refers to these ...
Charlotte McNeilly scandalised her family in 1847 by eloping with an illiterate Irish Catholic coachman who worked on the family estate. They were, however, convinced ...
Photographer and inventor of world's first commercially viable photolithographic process, adopted by Government of Victoria in 1861. Osborne's invention proved successful in England, Germany and ...
John Henry Wroth Pettit was a sketcher, architect, builder and surveyor. In 1856, Pettit, in an architectural partnership with George Hastings, designed the Early English ...
Sketcher, designer, illuminator and decorator George Frederick Smith was awarded a variety of medals for his illuminations, imitation marbling and wood graining. Smith's pen sketches ...
Continental photographer, house painter and drawing teacher, who liked to keep up to date with the latest fashions in photography for commercial purposes.
Best known in New Zealand as the Prussian-born adventurer and daring guerrilla-type fighter, and for the intricately detailed watercolours recording the events of the Waikato ...
Slater & Glazier, born in Kilmarnock, Scotland. He was an apprentice of James Ferguson in Wallacetown, Ayr. Both men came to Australia in late 1852 ...
Painted watercolour scenes around the Port Macquarie area. Her work, described as 'spirited' and 'lively', depicted subjects such as a dismounted trooper fighting a tribal ...
This diverse artist practised as a painter, lithographer and professional photographer. His works encompassed portrait, landscape and still life genres. Exhibiting in Adelaide, Melbourne and ...