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Couthouy, Joseph Pitt
Sketcher and naturalist, was appointed conchologist to the United States Exploring Expedition under Charles Wilkes. Couthouy visited Australia as part of the expedition in 1839.
Cowie, Julia
Sketcher and watercolourist. Resident of Victoria, NSW and Tasmania. Cowie painted Regency-style specimens of wildflowers, some of which were showsn in the 1866 Melbourne Intercolonial ...
Crux, Arthur
Sketcher, drawing teacher, architect and builder. A lecture Crux delivered on the subject of drawing at the Parramatta School of Arts in October 1858 was ...
Dalton, Edwin
A prominent society photographer, teacher to Queen Victoria and inventor of the 'Biotype'. His talent for portraiture was such 'you could almost speak to' his ...
Eagar, N. H.
N. H. Eagar was a drawing student at the Sydney Mechanics Institute. He was awarded a prize of 8s 6d on 6 June 1850.
East, John B.
A portrait painter and miniaturist, J. B. East's best known work is his oil portrait of Jamaican boatman, Billy Blue. His lively watercolours of Europeans ...
Edgar, Thomas
A sculptor and modeller who worked in his youth on the Houses of Parliament, London and on Millais' frescoes, Edgar moved to Grafton in 1855 ...
Ellis, J.
A watercolourist and lithographer who worked in Sydney in the 1840s and 1850s Ellis produced landscape paintings of Sydney and lithographs of its churches.
Elwes, Robert
The adventurous sketcher and lithographer was shipwrecked off Flinders Island in 1849 on his round-the-world voyage. His book, 'A Sketcher's Tour round the World' featured ...
Elworthy,
It is assumed that Mr Elworthy was a photographic agent. In 1854 he advertised a range of photographic equipment from his shop in Pitt Street, ...
Ewart, W.
An established landscape and genre painter in England, Ewart painted many prominent citizens of Sydney and Bathurst and advertised himself as a painter who could ...
Fairland, Charles Henry
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 ...
Field, Henry, b.
A professional photographer who came to Victoria from England in the mid 1850s, presumably - and unsuccessfully - in search of gold. In the late ...
Finnigan,
Was awarded a drawing prize while an art student at the Sydney Mechanics School of Arts.
Fitzsimmons, John J.
For at least seventeen years John Fitzsimmons plied his craft as an engraver and printer in the city of Sydney. He had success enough to ...
Fraser, James Tatton B.
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. ...
Frost,
Teacher of music and drawing in Sydney. In 1854 Mrs. Frost advertised in the 'Illustrated Sydney' that she moved house and would henceforth continue 'to ...
G., A.
Sketcher, filled a sketchbook with views while living in Sydney in 1859-60. Most are watercolours and all are monogrammed (somewhat indecipherably) and dated. They include ...
Gibson, J. P.
Art teacher who exhibited pupils' work and delivered a lecture titled 'Drawing and Practical Art'. Established school of design in Sydney.
Gow, David
Working on George Street, Sydney in the mid 1850's.