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Blaxland, Louisa Australia, b. 1807
A member of the aristocratic Blaxland family, Louise Australia was the sixth of 11 children, acquiring her middle name as the first 'native' born child ...
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Burkitt, Alexander Horace, b. 1807
Received thanks for his contribution to the illustrations of Woods's 'A History of the Discovery and Exploration of Australia' (2 vols, London, 1865). for the ...
Burn, Henry, b. 1807
Burn's watercolour and oil landscapes demonstrate his success in capturing the changing effects of light and atmosphere as well as incorporating interesting contemporary details.
Govett, William, b. 1807
Young exploratory surveyor who impressed others with his work so much that they named the most beautiful waterfall in that area 'Govett's Leap'. He was ...
Hurst, Henry Stevenson, b. 1807
Henry Stevenson Hurst was a sketcher and public servant. Hurst was a chief draughtsman at the Survey Department.
Lazenby, George, b. 1807
Cabinetmaker, master builder, lay preacher and civil servant. He was born in 1807. A man with a social conscience Lazenby was Chairman of the Swan ...
Nicholas, William, b. 1807
A watercolourist, etcher and lithographer who liked to depict Shakespearian and mythological subjects. He was best known for his portraits and actively took part in ...
Riley, William Edward, b. 1807
William Edward Riley, pastoralist and sketcher, was a son of the pioneer pastoralist Alexander Riley who had come to New South Wales as a free ...
Stieglitz, Emma von, b. 1807
Painted mainly domestic scenes, von Stieglitz also painted portraits of Tasmanian Aboriginal men and women. The latter were regarded as inferior because they were colonial ...
Thurston, Eliza, b. 1807
Despite having to raise a young family on her own in a country not of her birth, Eliza Thurston managed to become an established and ...
Wilshire, William Pitt, b. 1807
Native colonial whose claim to fame as first-born Australian artist belied the fact he took up landscape only because of the threat of photography to ...
Wingate, Thomas, b. 1807
Retired army officer who came to Sydney in 1852. Wingate worked in the media of photography, painting and drawing. He exhibited a photographic panorama of ...
Bayly, George, b. 1808
George Bayly followed in the family tradition of seafaring and sailed to the far corners of the British Empire. He kept meticulous diaries, including pen-and-ink ...
Becker, Ludwig, b. 1808
An undervalued member of the fateful Burke and Wills expedition, Ludwig Becker was an accomplished artist and naturalist whose contribution to the expedition has belatedly ...
Beechey, Richard Brydges, b. 1808
While Richard Brydes Beechey painted a scene of Lt. Stokes discovering Victoria River, he is not known to have ever visited Australia though he travelled ...
Bunn, Anna Maria, b. 1808
Her album documents her life at St. Omer, Braidwood, and includes competent watercolours of insects and flowers - generally English ones from her garden - ...
Errington, Eliza Helen, b. 1808
A painter and sketcher who lived in Tasmania where lithographer John Skinner Proust was regarded as a key influence on her work. She also spent ...
Marsden, Jane, b. 1808
English female colonial sketcher who drew pictures of where she lived in Parramatta, and recorded her voyage to England in her journal. She posed for ...
Parker, Emmeline Emily, b. 1808
Emmeline Emily Parker was a sketcher and poet. She married Henry Watson Parker who was Premier of New South Wales from 1856-57. Her mother opposed ...