Sarah Westall Poynter (née Meredith) was a painter and sketcher. Leaving from London in 1820, she came to Van Diemen's Land with her father, step-mother ...
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 ...
Shipped to Tasmania for robbing a grocery shop, Strange established himself as a portrait painter in Launceston where he also painted a number of views ...
Walker received little formal education, but as a young woman showed considerable talent in the art of modelling. She would become very well known for ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Her album documents her life at St. Omer, Braidwood, and includes competent watercolours of insects and flowers - generally English ones from her garden - ...
Critics considered Fraser's work as proof of the healthy state of local art: 'If our amateurs can produce drawings of such feeling and such skill...we ...
Colonial portrait painter who lived and worked in Parramatta, NSW. He set up a successful portrait studio there and introduced the novel idea of payment ...
Engraver, schoolteacher, writer and poet, arrived at Hobart Town, Tasmania, from England in 1857. He produced a map of Hobart town, judged to be 'one ...
Despite Russell's extensive work as a sketcher, amateur photographer, etcher, lithographer, carver, architect and surveyor, he is still better known for his work ethic and ...
The adventurous Flintoff travelled in North America before reaching Melbourne, via Mexico and the Society Islands. This voyage formed the subject of his later paintings. ...