Female colonial artist of the famous Macarthur family who painted and sketched places where she lived and travelled, eventually establishing the Macarthur family home, Camden ...
Female colonial poet, watercolourist and sketcher who posed for another painter in the act of painting flowers, although no floral still-lifes by her have been ...
François-Edmond Pâris was a painter, draughtsman, scholar and naval officer. He was born in Paris in 1806. Pâris entered the navy in 1820 and within ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...