Colonial era Melbourne cartoonist, Barnes Snr was a staff artist on 'Melbourne Punch' c.1855-1860 and there is some speculation that either he or his son ...
Charles Henry Fairland was a painter, lithographer, illustrator and drawing master. He became town clerk of Hunters Hill municipality on its inception in 1861. His ...
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' ...
Colonial era Victorian illustrator and accountant. Bailliere's 'Melbourne Directory' for 1868, 1870 and 1871 lists Leplastrier as an accountant with Her Majesty's Customs.
Illustrator, illuminator and designer, illuminated an address presented to Rev. Dr John Bede Polding, in the late 1840s. It was later praised as a masterpiece ...
Scottish colonial pastoralist who made fun of his unsuspecting Presbyterian neighbours with his cut paper silhouettes depicting caricatures cavorting with fantasy creatures.
Colonial era Sydney painter, caricaturist, illustrator, journalist and publican. Newall was also a renowned marksman who apparently bet a case of champagne that he could ...
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 ...
Sketcher and gold-digger, wrote and illustrated an account of a journey to the goldfields, between 'Kerkabaroo' on the Wakefield River, South Australia, and Bendigo in ...
Colonial-era Victorian and Tasmanian caricaturist, Thomas was awarded damages of 15 shillings when the subject of one of his caricatures destroyed the illustration as it ...
Frank Varley was a colonial period Victorian painter, scene-painter, cartoonist, caricaturist and lithographer who eventually settled in New Zealand. With R.J. Morressy, Varley founded the ...