Charles Archer made numerous maps and drawings of Queensland and is considered one of its major early artists. A member of the enterprising colonial Archer ...
Watercolour painter, writer, naval officer and settler. Resident of England, New Zealand and Australia, his sketches are more the work of a gentleman traveller interested ...
Joseph Backler made the best of his transportation to Australia by becoming a prolific and highly regarded portrait painter. He travelled the east coast taking ...
Kennedy was primarily a surveyor and explorer with an interest in drawing and watercolours. He was killed while exploring Queensland's Cape York in 1848 but ...
Described by his contemporaries as 'the most handsome man ever to come through Cunningham's Gap', the watercolourist and polymath George Fairholme had a fairytale life. ...
A prolific watercolourist painter and sketcher, Lloyd is known as 'Australia's peripatetic artist'. He travelled indefatigably throughout his long life, recording many landscapes in Australia, ...
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 ...
Well-travelled (South America, South Pacific and Australasia) English colonial watercolourist, oil painter, lithographer, sketcher and landscape artist who is one of the better known 19th ...
Sketcher and letter-writer, she is primarily known for her letters which describe rural life in Australia, particularly that on her brother's Queensland property, in the ...
Sarah Ann Fogg lived variously in Germany, Italy, South Africa and Tasmania and had many opportunities for studying the great Western works of Europe. It ...
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 ...
Thomas Biddulph Hutton was a painter, teacher and clergyman. Queensland views attributed to him are dated 1858 and are held in Mitchell Library, State Library ...