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Macpherson, Emma, b.
Colonial female author and artist who painted watercolours of landscapes during her brief residence in Australia before returning to Scotland with her husband to live ...
Macqueen, Agnes B.
Female colonial sketcher and governess who endured great hardships, for a time surviving only by selling her drawings. She later kept house for her brother ...
Maddigan, Gayle, b.
Gayle Maddigan is a Wemba Wemba, Wertigikia and Nari Nari woman from Victoria. In 2005 she won the Works on Paper category at the Telstra ...
Magill, J. N.
Unknown colonial sketcher who signed a watercolour of Adelaide, South Australia. The work is held at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT.
Malcolm, J.
Unknown sketcher who drew the ship 'Isabella' and may have exhibited it (or a relative may have exhibited it) in Adelaide, 1863.
Mallarky,
Colonial male art pupil at the Sydney Mechanics School of Arts, who was second best to Master Anderson according to F.C. Terry.
Manning, Emily Anne
Colonial female watercolourist and sketcher of Australian and European landscapes. Her husband was chancellor of the newly co-educational University of Sydney.
Marr, Alexander
Colonial Sydney teacher who taught drawing and needlework among other subjects, according to the advertisement for the reopening of her school.
Marsh, John Augustus Milbourne
Colonial female artist who drew her own home (before it was destroyed) and other houses and rural properties, some belonging to other artists.
Marshall, John
Colonial male naval officer and cartographer whose sketches and maps were probably used to illustrate a publication about the voyage of the First Fleet.
Marten, A. P., b.
Colonial female watercolourist and sketcher who painted homesteads and landscapes whilst collecting and colouring photographs. She only stayed in Queensland for a short time.
Martin, A.
Colonial female sketcher whose sketches of Pilgrim's Progress drew comment from an Adelaide newspaper.
Martin, Jan
Architect who illustrated an article about Wattie Creek in a Melbourne based publication.
Martindale, Mary Elizabeth
English female colonial sketcher whose sometimes bleak sketches of NSW landscapes echoed her husband's short-lived career as superintendent of roads.
Martyn, James J.
Colonial male sketcher of horses and landscapes who may have been related to a horse and carriage salesman.
Massingbird, Peregrine Langton, b.
English traveller from South Lincolnshire, who recorded his journey to Van Diemen's Land with his daughter's family. However, the sketches in his diary may have ...
Matthews, John M.
Colonial male artist whose drawings, oils and watercolours of NSW landscapes have been considered naive.
Maurice,
Tasmanian colonial art teacher who exhibited everyone else's work except his own and taught chemistry and mineralogy to pay for the space.
May, Alfred
Late colonial sketcher. May compiled 'A Week on the Wild Wave', a sketchbook held in Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW.
Mayo, Ellen Anne
Female colonial sketcher and painter who recorded views of Sydney as she travelled to Adelaide. Afterwards she exhibited a painting of fruit.