Commons was a monumental mason, trained in Europe, who was commissioned to carve four allegorical figures for Parliament House, Melbourne, though it never eventuated due ...
James Tatton B. Fraser was a sketcher and explorer. Yet his images were not included in fellow explorer Robert Austin's published journal of their expedition. ...
Perth-based goldsmith and soap maker who was a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths and exhibited at the Perth International Exhibition of 1881.
Elizabeth Gray received a royal commission after presenting two vases made from black swan eggs on which she had etched 'some sketches of natural history' ...
Watercolour painter, very little is known about his background. During the 1860s to 1880s he painted Sydney scenes and paintings signed F. Halstead and G.F.H ...
Johann Gotthilf Samuel Hoffman was a potter from Rowland Flat, South Australia. Examples of Hoffman's work c. 1847-1885 are held at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney.
Amateur photographer, is said to have taken the Australian photographs in an album now in the National Library of Australia. They begin in the late ...
Professional photographer, was working at Sydney in 1856. This is presumably the Monsieur Lacombe described as 'an amateur from Lyons' who exhibited photographs at the ...
Adelaide-based colonial male photographer whose daguerreotypes of scenery were so good he won a guinea prize one year and got to judge the same competition ...
Sketched Tasmanian scenes that include Campbell Town, Hobart Town, rural areas and churches. He produced an album containing seventeen of his watercolour sketches.