Although her work is held in the National Library of Australia, Rusden is still remembered for briefly catching the eye of Houston Mitchell. His words: ...
Benjamin Saunders was an oil painter and professional photographer, who showed his paintings in several exhibitions in Melbourne and Sydney in the late 1800s.
Lithographer and printer. He first advertised his Paper Bag Manufactory and Stationery Warehouse at 20 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, on 25 November 1856 in Der Kosmopolit, ...
Professional photographer, trained at Edwin Dalton's Sydney studio in 1857. Scott is known to have been producing portraits by the autotype process in 1879.
Montagu Scott arrived in Melbourne in the late 1850s and ran a photographic studio before illustrating the Melbourne Punch. He later moved to Sydney where ...
Selwyn was a daughter, sister and wife to Reverends, her watercolours were for friends and family not public exhibition. Her mother-in-law was not appreciative of ...
William Butler Simpson was a sketcher and surveyor. He undertook surveying work in the counties of Bathurst, Wellington, Gordon, Bligh, Lincoln and Ashburton between 1861 ...
Professional photographer and miner, ran a photographic business in the 1850s, acquiring Saul Solomon's reputed collection of 17,000 glass plate negatives in the process. Smith ...
Colonial portrait and landscape painter, among the more prominent people he painted were Mr Scott, George Allen MLC and David Jones. Local scenery was also ...
Painter and photographer(?), exhibited twenty-two still-life paintings at the Royal Academy, London. Despite glowing reviews, Stevens appears to have had very little success in selling ...
Professional photographer, who worked for numerous photographic firms, purchasing his own, the Batchelder firm in 1868, and continuing there until 1889, when he retired.
Portrait and landscape painter, came to Tasmania from London and advertised in the Launceston Examiner on 25 September 1855 that he was prepared to undertake ...
Illustrator. Monogrammed an illustration, 'Attempted Assassination of the HRH the Duke of Edinburgh at Clontarf, NSW, 1868', which was engraved on wood by Samuel Calvert.
Benjamin Tannett was a noted theatrical scene-painter and actor working in Melbourne and Sydney in the mid nineteenth century. In 1859 Tannett painted 'new and ...