Scene-painter, journalist, politician and businessman born in London. Resident of Melbourne, Victoria he painted theatrical scenery to pay for his education.
Samuel Edmonds was a landscape painter who exhibited some of his work at Victorian Artists' Society exhibitions during the first decade of the twentieth century. ...
Richard Hall was the eldest son of photographer ‘Professor’ Robert Hall and Ruth, nee Smith. He won prizes for the best stereoscopic photographs at the ...
Nineteenth-century professional photographer, who exhibited several views of Melbourne and its suburbs in the form of 'instantaneous stereographs' at the Melbourne Intercolonial Exhibition of 1866.
Professional photographer, was born in Germany. Known as the first person to successful attempt the representation of the 'native blacks truthfully as well as artistically'. ...
Male colonial photographer who travelled to Europe and rural WA, after settling in Fremantle, and established a reputable business in Perth on his return.
English colonial wood engraver and painter who worked with his brother Frederick on numerous illustrations for a range of Sydney newspapers. He had many jobs ...
Henry Rielly established his career and reputation in Victoria but his work took on an added signficiance when he came to live in regional Queensland ...
English-born painter and journalist/writer who lived in America in the 1870s then moved to New Zealand where he began professional painting and who moved to ...
Victorian civil servant and amateur landscape painter. He exhibited at a number of significant venues but was once criticised for painting with "too great a ...
Bushman, station manager in Queensland later Watercolour painter and grazier and writer, resident in Maranoa and Barcoo in Queensland from about 1862-1867 later Sydney and ...
Alfred Kirk Chopin was born in 1846. He was a photographer. In 1874 Edwin Truscott Gill and Chopin toured the country taking photographs. Chopin died ...
The Italian-born Ferrarini came to Australia for 'a long stay'. He specialised in landscape painting, his work being described as very theatrical and European.
A naval officer who served in the Pacific 1864-1867 and published an account of the perils and adventures he faced complete with maps and drawings. ...