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Esam, Arthur
Colonial era Adelaide newspaper illustrator. Esam drew old-time coaching scenes for 'Frearson's Weekly.'
Essam, Arthur, b. 1850
Painter and illustrator, drover, surveyor and explorer who arrived in Victoria in 1870.
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 ...
Johnson, Joseph Colin Francis, b. 1848
Late Colonial-era South Australian painter, cartoonist, illustrator, journalist and politician. In 1884 he entered Parliament as Member for Onkaparinga and became Minister for Education in ...
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.
MacNally, Matthew James, b. 1873
A well known art critic and journalist, James MacNally was also a highly regarded watercolour artist during the interwar years.
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.
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Preston, Margaret, b. 1875
Margaret Preston specialised in still life subjects, seeking to reinvent the genre, with inspiration from Aboriginal art and Australian native flowers, but she also made ...
Haddon, Robert J., b.
Architect and water- colourist. He is claimed to be a co-founder with T. S. Henry of the West Australian Society of Arts.
Snell, Edward, b. 1820
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 ...
Summerhayes, Edwin, b. 1868
In Coolgardie he designed the Turkish Baths, the Jewish Synagogue, the Presbyterian Church, the Mechanics Institute and worked on the Exhibition Building. He was a ...