Barcroft Capel Boake was one of the most well-known and successful professional photographers of the second half of the 19th century but beset by economic ...
Painter Charles Conder is best known in Australia for his association with the Heidelberg School and his involvement with the famous 9 x 5 Impressions ...
A professional photographer, he produced the first known photographic record of early Bendigo but later sought to change his financial fortunes by painting. In 1868 ...
Elizabeth Gray received a royal commission after presenting two vases made from black swan eggs on which she had etched 'some sketches of natural history' ...
Ballard was a professional photographer who practiced in Beechworth, Victoria from 1868, Mount Gambier, South Australia from 1880, and later in Branxton and Singleton, New ...
Colonial era Danish-born scene-painter, cartoonist and soldier. Habbe's scenes painted for the Christmas pantomimes at the Opera House rivalled those of John Hennings at the ...
Late colonial era German-born painter, illustrator and cartoonist. Worked in Sydney and Melbourne as well as Cape Town, South Africa. He founded 'The South African ...
A well travelled painter, in 1876 Carse was regarded as 'perhaps the best painter in the colony' with his landscapes, depicting locations from all around ...
Daplyn was an English born painter, art teacher, journalist, and arts administrator. Although his work is little known today, he was an important early advocate ...