Joseph Jefferson was a landscape and scene-painter and an actor. He was born in 1829 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Jefferson made his stage debut when he ...
Sketcher and watercolourist who spent about eighteen months in Australasia from 1852. Three of his sketchbooks are in the Mitchell Library, State Library of New ...
Male professional photographer, trained in Scotland, who offered a typical range of services through his Brisbane based studio. He produced many studio photographs of Indigenous ...
English colonial male lithographer, watercolourist, and draughtsman. His diverse career included writing and illustrating children's books, teaching, publishing newspapers, public speaking and founding music and ...
Painter and explorer, was born in Pembrokeshire, Wales on 31 January 1829. In 1844 Murphy was appointed one of the four European members of Leichhardt's ...
Painter, painted the oil Wanderers on the Moon auctioned by Deutscher-Menzies among its Australian and International Pantings, Sculpture and Works on Paper at Melbourne on ...
Thomas A.Sealy was a muralist, monumental carver and stonemason. He drank heavily and local oral tradition holds that he paid his bills by painting murals.
Stewart, John Tiffin, was a sketcher, surveyor and engineer, who was in the 1866 Melbourne Intercolonial Exhibition as a colonial engineer who provided the sketch ...
Convicted of forgery and sentenced to fourteen years transportation, Stout became one of the handful of competent photographers working in Western Australia during the 1860s ...
Despite ill-health and colour-blindness, George Sutherland was the father of eight children and a prolific artmaker. He concentrated more on sketching due to his impairment, ...
Pastoralist who sketched various subjects including Aboriginal portraits, homesteads and Australian fauna. Tindal drowned aged 25 while attempting to cross the Clarence River in NSW. ...
Illustrator and engraver, was commissioned by Thomas Ham in 1851 to sketch some of the earliest known views of the Victorian diggings. Tulloch contributed an ...
Painter and amateur photographer. Allport appears to have made the first photographic expedition to the Lake St Clair region in Tasmania, exhibiting the stereoscopic photographs ...
Arriving from England in 1854 with his wife, William Henry Batchelor disembarked at Adelaide and promptly went inland to Burra Burra where he lived the ...
Some crude pencil sketches of his homestead and the district of St. Omer are among the earliest known views of Canberra. Bunn contested his mother's ...
Henry worked at a photographic studio in Parramatta in 1860-1864. Carte-de-visite studio portraits and views of the Hawkesbury River dating from this period are held ...