Enigmatic figure who created a highly sophisticated, functioning model of the astronomical clock in Strasbourg Cathedral in France. The model is in the collection of ...
Professional photographer and vocal proponent of modernisation in the arts. Active in Newcastle around the 1860s, he produced photographs of the triumphal arch that was ...
Early 20th century Sydney Bulletin cartoonist who lived at Manly. There is some speculation that Eileen might be the sister of Alice Solly, who also ...
Unconventional, bizarre and multi-faceted character who, with the aid of family members, produced a range of static and mechanical 'entertainments' to the delight of the ...
Spindler began her career in retail sales at Farmers, Sydney, later moving into interior design. In the 1970s, she established a textile import business specialising ...
During the 1850s Stamper left his Paddington residence to go on sketching trips with the colonial watercolourist John Hardwick. In a wash drawing worked on ...
Painter and photographer(?), exhibited twenty-two still-life paintings at the Royal Academy, London. Despite glowing reviews, Stevens appears to have had very little success in selling ...