After two previous trips to Australia as a natural historian, George Bennett finally settled in Sydney in 1836 and worked as a medical practitioner. He ...
Bowen Bungaree is attributed as the first documented Aboriginal artist with the sketch Representation of a woman by a native of NSW, 1823. Bowan Bungaree ...
Elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly and twice served short terms as premier. His fifteen known drawings in pencil, pen-and-ink and wash originally in ...
Thomas Woore was a sketcher, modeller, naval officer, surveyor and pastoralist. He visited Sydney for the first time in 1829. Woore's sketches of houses are ...
Colonial male tobacconist and sketcher whose only known work is a marine watercolour. Aldis is better known for his tobacco shop, which was a popular ...
A sketcher, FitzRoy served as a naval officer on the Beagle with Charles Darwin and was later influenced by the work of official expedition artist, ...
Lauvergne was from a family with no previous naval tradition. He first arrived in Australia on board the 'Astrolabe' for its 1826/1829 voyage of the ...
Colonial sketcher and governess, who apparently made many beautiful drawings in her time at Launceston, Van Diemen's Land. She was threatened with legal proceedings when ...
A missionary from England, Richard Taylor (1805 1873) documented his travels, excursions and acquaintances with many sketches, illustrations and watercolour drawings. His journal entries detail ...
Jane Elizabeth Blaxland was born into one of the early colonial 'aristocratic' families of Australia and although she was reported by others to have been ...