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Bock, Alfred, b. 1835
One of the pioneers of early photography in the 19th century along with his stepfather Thomas Bock, Alfred Bock also pursued a number of other ...
Clay, A. Bennett
Professional photographer and resident of Tasmania and Victoria.
Allport, Curzon, b. 1837
Sketcher, amateur photographer and solicitor. Son of artist Mary Morton Allport. Allport was the first president of the Tasmanian Photographic, Science and Art Association, elected ...
Fairman, B. George
B. George Fairman, who opened a studio in Launceston in the late 1860s, appears to have been a society photographer, since his stock-in-trade was the ...
Davies, Henry Easom, b. 1831
Considered by contemporary critics to be a 'poet-painter' of colonial subjects. His Turner-esque technique nevertheless came to be considered overly stylised which may explain why, ...
Gritten, Henry, b. 1818
Henry Gritten was a painter and professional photographer. He 'enjoyed the favour of Prince Albert, the Duke of Norfolk and the Marquis of Westminster'. Gritten ...
Bruford, Frederick Horatio, b. 1846
Victorian civil servant and amateur landscape painter. He exhibited at a number of significant venues but was once criticised for painting with "too great a ...
Jobson, Frederick James, b. 1821
Colonial-era sketcher, architect and clergyman, he published various books on Australia, Methodism in the Australian colonies and ecclesiastical architecture that were illustrated with his own ...
Broinowski, Gracius Joseph, b. 1837
Peripatetic artist who produced copious landscape images and sold them off inventively (through art unions). Finally settling down in Sydney, he taught in various private ...
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 ...
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 ...
Learmonth, Andrew James, b. 1826
Sketcher and squatter who was born in India and migrated to Australia as a child with his family. Known to have sketched on his property ...
Becker, Ludwig, b. 1808
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 ...
Macarthur, James, b. 1813
Male colonial artist of the famous Macarthur family whose only known pictures are of Victorian landscapes, despite living in Tasmania and New South Wales.
Manly, John Henry, b. 1843
Colonial era Tasmanian political cartoonist, lithographer, publisher and printer. Manly died of tuberculosis. He was twenty-eight years old.
Black, Margaret
Margaret Black sketched several notable views of Launceston that were exhibited in Melbourne in 1860 to glowing reviews. In 1861 one of the picture was ...
Baxter, Annie Maria, b. 1816
Annie Maria Baxter was a prolific writer who kept meticulous diaries of her life in Australia. Her few surviving drawings are now held at the ...
Mason, Cyrus, b. 1829
English colonial male lithographer, watercolourist, and draughtsman. His diverse career included writing and illustrating children's books, teaching, publishing newspapers, public speaking and founding music and ...
McDonald, Archibald, b. 1831
McDonald ran a successful photography business in Melbourne - shifting location every few years as partnerships changed or he outgrew his premises. He produced numerous ...
Montague, Fearnleigh L.
19th century painter of land and streetscapes - travelled around Australia, New Zealand and the United States of America.