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 ...
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.
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, ...
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 ...
Professional photographer and miner, ran a photographic business in the 1850s, acquiring Saul Solomon's reputed collection of 17,000 glass plate negatives in the process. Smith ...
As seen through the piqued eyes of Walter Woodbury, who taught Spencer the art of photography, Spencer became moderately successful taking likenesses on the Gold ...