A well-connected colonial official for most of his life, Solly was an accomplished sketcher and watercolourist with representation in significant collections.
Daughter of Judge Francis Burgess, Ellen visited Norfolk Island for a few months in 1846 with her father. While there she documented the landscape - ...
Colonial-era sketcher, architect and clergyman, he published various books on Australia, Methodism in the Australian colonies and ecclesiastical architecture that were illustrated with his own ...
Sketcher, surveyor and farmer, his artworks are primarily pencil sketched scenes of the Tasmanian landscape, many of which are held in the State Library of ...
Architect, decorator and scene painter. As city architect he designed the present facade and vestibule of the Sydney Town Hall as well as the Woolloomooloo ...
Nineteenth-century American-born photographer who emigrated to Australia. Duryea worked in various states, but mainly South Australia. He became a leading photographer of his day, particularly ...
John Mathieson Sharp was a professional photographer as well as a dentist. He had a photographic partnership with Frederick Frith. Many of their photographs were ...
Watercolourist and resident of Tasmania. She died in 1884 and was buried in the churchyard of Kirklands Chapel, near Campbell Town. Many years earlier, Crear ...
William Paul Dowling was a painter, engraver and photographer. In 1849 he was transported to Hobart Town as a political prisoner. Dowling worked in partnership ...
Nineteenth century art and language teacher, exhibition organiser, theatrical entrepreneur and property developer he played a major part in expanding colonial Australian representation in international ...