John Renno worked as a scene-painter and theatre mechanist at Drury Lane, Covent Garden, the Princess's and the Surrey Theatre, London. In 1852 he migrated ...
Walter Renny, painter and decorator, was proprietor of the Royal Blue House, which derived its name from being 'painted in blocks of blue and white ...
Thomas Roberts was a painter, art teacher and administrator. He made a portrait of Rev. Thomas Smith which Sydney Morning Herald described as, "painted in ...
Bryce Ross was photographer and/or art dealer in the 1850s. He was possibly the art dealer Ross whose 'Gallery of Australian Arts' opened in Sydney ...
Russell, a sketcher, sign-writer and architect. Abandoned Australia for England, showing at the Royal Academy in 1848. Only being lured back by the gold rush, ...
A professional watercolour painter, from Warwickshire, England. The Mitchell Library holds several of his pen-and-ink views of Melbourne and Sydney done in the 1850s, some ...
Benjamin Saunders was an oil painter and professional photographer, who showed his paintings in several exhibitions in Melbourne and Sydney in the late 1800s.
James Gay Sawkins was a landscape, portrait and genre painter. He was a skilful, precise draughtsman with a special interest in rock formations and other ...
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 ...