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Keough, George E., b.
A scene painter who worked extensively in the theatre in Hobart and Sydney, Keough was said to have been apprenticed in London to Clarkson Stanfield ...
Kesterton,
A photographic showman, Kesterton gave one of the first public magic-lantern shows in Adelaide in 1848.
King, Jane
Wife of a missionary, Jane King helped establish a school in Fremantle, Western Australia. Her sketches depicted local landscapes and indigenous inhabitants.
Knight, C.
C. Knight was a painter in Hobart in the early 1840s and is assumed to be also the photographer and photographic showman of the same ...
Korn, O.
Sketches by O. Korn were lithographed for Fourteen Views of Old Adelaide, published in 1876. May have been the architect F.O. Korn, of Sturt Street, ...
L., D. G.
Drawing teacher, advertised in Sydney in August 1844 that she wished 'to engage with a gentleman's family, either as resident or visiting governess. She is ...
L., J.
J.L. initialled the four watercolours of Norfolk Island in Robert Jones's manuscript journal. However elements of the illustrations are not historically correct for the time ...
Langeake, John
Scene-painter, painted the scenery for South Australia's first theatrical venue, ambitiously christened the Theatre Royal, in the room above the Adelaide Tavern in May 1838. ...
Leake, Georgiana Mary, b.
Watercolourist whose works mainly depict flowers from Western Australia and the Cape of Good Hope. A collection of early photographs and watercolours compiled by her ...
Leigh, W. H.
Sketcher, ship's surgeon and author who visited Kangaroo Island in April 1837 on board the vessel 'South Australia'. He later visited Adelaide and Sydney before ...
Leitch, W. W.
Scene-painter, designed and painted a 'splendid' new act drop for the refurbished Royal Victoria Theatre in Sydney when it re-opened on 6 August 1849. He ...
Lempriere, Clara
Painter. Daughter of Thomas and Charlotte Lempriere. Miss Lempriere studied at the National Gallery of Victoria's painting school under von Guérard.
Levinge,
Illustrator, illuminator and designer, illuminated an address presented to Rev. Dr John Bede Polding, in the late 1840s. It was later praised as a masterpiece ...
Light, Walter G.
Sketcher, brother of the architect George Thomas Light, came to South Australia in 1849. From that year date his earliest surviving sketches, and all of ...
Lightwood,
Lightwood was one of Melbourne's earliest practising scenic artists. In 1843 the 'Port Phillip Herald' praised his scenery for George Buckingham's production of All for ...
Lingham, Henry
Painter and lithographer, was recorded in the Port Phillip Almanac and Directory for 1847 as a lithographer living in Melbourne. It is likely that he ...
Lockwood,
Portraitist, draughtsman and conman, was a Van Diemen's Land expiree committed for trial in 1848 for defrauding his Melbourne employers, ironmongers Richardson & White.
Loiper, Robert
Sketcher, drew an ink over pencil sketch of Aborigines in a landscape held at the Mitchell Library.
Lowe, Charles
Lowe, a solicitor, sketched the island of St Paul on his way to New South Wales in 1844. Lowe joined the new Sydney Sketching Club ...
Lucas,
Captain Lucas is claimed to be the first person to take a photograph on Australian soil, at Sydney on 13 May 1841.