A sketchbook by Emily Knight, dating from 1st January 1864, held in Tasmania's Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts contains pencil copies of British ...
Colonial female lace-maker whose Gothic revival style and Celtic interlacing title pages illuminated the names of Queen Victoria and Lady Smith, before bringing the Tasmanian ...
Late nineteenth century scene-painter who with Alfred Clint, provided the scenery for 'The Merry Wives of Windsor', which opened at the Theatre Royal in Melbourne ...
John A. Upton was a professional painter and photographic colourist of the late 19th Century. Upton studied at the Royal Melbourne Technical College and the ...
Founder of the Julian Ashton Art School. Ashton dominated artistic circles in Sydney for over fifty years. He re-established the Society of Artists of which ...
Phillip William Goatcher, a theatrical scene painter, was born in England in 1851, trained in 1867 as an apprentice scene painter in Melbourne, where he ...