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Varley, Frank
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 ...
Walker, George
Painter and professional photographer, exhibited artworks, mainly copies, at the Melbourne Exhibition, 1854 and Melbourne Intercolonial Exhibition, 1866. Although listed in the Melbourne Directory as ...
Walker, James
Professional photographer with premises in Pitt and George Streets, Sydney. Advertised to take photographs in the 'first style of the art'.
Warren,
Photographic showman, showed dissolving views at Brisbane in August 1857. There is, however, no evidence that he prepared these himself.
Waters, Henry
Painter and carver, showed his painting, 'A Storm', in the Colonial Room at the second exhibition of the Society for the Promotion of the Fine ...
Watson, John
Professional photographer, operated photographic studios in Brisbane and Sydney. In 1874, he published 'Watson's Queensland Album of Photographic Scenery'.
Watts,
Scene-painter who painted scenery for a performance at the Queen's Theatre, Melbourne in 1850. In 1867 he executed a large transparency in oils for the ...
West, Christopher M. S.
Sketcher, is known only for his pencil 'View from Dryburgh St, Melbourne, Victoria - As It Was in 1855'.
White, William
Drawing teacher and architect. He designed St Paul's Church of England at West Maitland that is still in use.
Wigmore, R.
Wigmore organised the Hobart Town Art-Treasures Exhibition with Morton Allport in around 1858. He was a sketcher.
Wilkinson, Charles
Colonial geologist whose pioneer use of photography to illustrate Victorian rocks may have inspired his son to become a geologist too.
Wilkinson, D.
Colonial Melbourne male artist who exhibited paintings with unusual subject matter ranging from a burning boat to bovine portraits.
Wilkinson, Henry
English colonial surgeon and watercolourist who painted landscapes. He settled in Sydney in 1854.
Williams, Henry
Colonial male oil painter, watercolourist and photographer from Hobart Town who painted children and hunters.
Williams, Thomas S.
Male colonial photographer with numerous businesses who made xylographs popular before a fire burnt down his Collins Street studio in Melbourne.
Willis, F.
Painter, is believed to have come to Sydney in 1850, the year his Road Side Scene, near Richmond was included in James Grocott's third art ...
Wivell, Edward James
A professional photographer and dancing teacher from 1869 until 1893. Wivell also became the proprietor of Adelaide's leading commercial art gallery in the 1880s.
Wood, George
Professional photographer, is listed as working from King William Street, Adelaide, between 1854 and 1856.
Wood, Maurice
Professional photographer, had a studio in George Street, Sydney in 1858/1859 and in Liverpool Street, Woolloomooloo in 1859.
Woolner, Thomas
Thomas Woolner was a Pre-Raphaelite sculptor who worked in Australia during the Gold Rush.