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Benham, Amie, b. 1844
Amie Benham entered her landscape watercolours in several Adelaide exhibitions in the late 1860s/early 1870s and garnered various prizes and acclaim for her artworks.
Angas, George French, b. 1822
A watercolour and natural history painter, many of Angas's sketches from his travels as a naturalist in the mid 1800s became the basis for lithographic ...
Appleton, George A.
Painter, lithographer and photographic colourist during the 1860s. With Alexander Habbe, Appleton painted transparencies to celebrate the Sydney visit of the Duke of Edinburgh in ...
Ball, Adam Gustavus, b. 1821
Like so many artists of the period, Ball's job as a civil engineer allowed him to travel throughout South Australia recording scenes of outback life ...
Hamilton, George, b. 1812
George Hamilton was a painter, illustrator, lithographer, explorer, author and policeman. He exhibited with the South Australian Society of Arts. Hamilton died in 1883.
Hill, Charles, b. 1824
Painter, engraver and teacher, in, England and arrived in Adelaide in 1854 where he became very influential in the local art scene. Hill specialised in ...
Darling, Ida Amelia, b. 1846
Sketcher, watercolourist and chalk colourist, Ida Amelia Darling was a student of the School of Design, South Australian Society of Arts in the late 1860s ...
Adamson, James Hazell, b. 1829
This diverse artist practised as a painter, lithographer and professional photographer. His works encompassed portrait, landscape and still life genres. Exhibiting in Adelaide, Melbourne and ...
Angas, John Howard, b. 1823
Pastoralist and member of parliament, John Howard Angas was also a natural history painter. He painted birds, insects, and flowers, but no surviving work is ...
Hood, John, b. 1839
Painter and professional photographer, was born in England and arrived in Adelaide in 1863 as an indentured employee of Townsend Duryea. Later he ran his ...
Irvine, John, b. 1805
As a painter and portraitist, John Irvine made a name for himself in Scotland as well as Adelaide and Dunedin. Actively involved in art societies, ...
Jefferson, Joseph, b. 1829
Joseph Jefferson was a landscape and scene-painter and an actor. He was born in 1829 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Jefferson made his stage debut when he ...
MacCormac, Andrew, b. 1826
Male colonial painter of portraits, a few landscape and genre paintings, who mainly worked in South Australia, portraying the upper classes.
Mason, Edward, b. 1845
English colonial wood engraver and painter who worked with his brother Frederick on numerous illustrations for a range of Sydney newspapers. He had many jobs ...
King, Matilda, b. 1837
Described as 'One of the first ladies to paint South Australian native flowers' Tilly King was both a botanical painter and collector who had a ...
Needham, Frederick, b. 1840
A watercolourist who mainly painted the surroundings of South Australia. He exhibited several landscapes in South Australia and was commissioned in the 1880s to produce ...
Peirce, Augustus Baker, b. 1840
Widely travelled Colonial era American-born sketcher, comic illustrator, caricaturist, painter, scene-painter, professional photographer, sailor, theatrical performer and entrepreneur.
Norman, R.
Painter or sketcher who was awarded a prize at the 1866 exhibition of the South Australian Society of Arts in Adelaide. Probably the son of ...
Minchin, Richard, b. 1831
Painter, lithographer(?), draughtsman and zoo director, migrated to Adelaide from Ireland in the 1850s, won many prizes at the South Australian Society of Arts with ...
Richardson, George, b. 1822
George Bouchier Richardson, sketcher, engraver, watercolourist and editor, 'regretted the necessity which compelled him to join his parents in Australia in 1854, but hoped that ...