Charlotte Ann Reeve Cole (Chassie) showed an early interest in art and began entering various exhibitions, including Ballarat Juvenile Exhibition of 1878. She won medals ...
Duterrau arrived in Australia when he was 65. Already an established artist, he produced many Australian 'firsts' including 'The Conciliation' - the first history painting ...
Painter, lived at the Royal Bull's Head Inn, Drayton, near Toowoomba, Queensland, Hettie lived there until she married and, apparently, again as a widow (Mrs ...
Painter, art teacher and theosophist, she had a daughter with naturopath Don Le Friemann and lived with his wife and daughter in an un-orthodox relationship. ...
Clarke was a school headmistress and painter who completed four watercolours on two mounts c.1870-1930, each signed 'M.C.' that was bequeathed to the State Library ...
Phillip William Goatcher, a theatrical scene painter, was born in England in 1851, trained in 1867 as an apprentice scene painter in Melbourne, where he ...
Critics have claimed that expatriate Isobel Rae 'carried her impressionist style too far'. Nevertheless, her paintings possessed a 'rare charm and poetry' combined with 'harmonious ...
Charles Douglas Richardson, illustrator and sculptor, drew 'Aborigines Attacking Bushman' a full-size plate from an unidentified publication, possibly the Australasian Sketcher.
Francis Guillemard Simpkinson was a painter, diarist and naval officer. In 1845 at the Hobart Town Art Exhibition, (the first major fine arts exhibition in ...
A successful surveyor and engineer as well as a painter and a sketcher, whose move to Australia was significant to his artistic output, beginning with ...
Academic symbolist and plein-air painter, Loureiro came to Melbourne after studying and living in Portugal, Rome and Paris. In Australia he established an association with ...
One of Australia's most iconic painters, Tom Roberts was an early champion of plein-air painting and together with Frederick McCubbin, Roberts helped establish the famous ...