Professional photographer and entrepreneur born in London. Resident of Melbourne, Ballarat and Daylesford he documented the explorers and early colonists of Victoria. Much of Chuck's ...
Scene-painter, journalist, politician and businessman born in London. Resident of Melbourne, Victoria he painted theatrical scenery to pay for his education.
An artist of English origin, Duckett came to Australia in the 1860's. Despite befriending Eugène Von Guérard he found Melbourne hostile and moved to Sydney, ...
Thomas A. Durnford was a painter. In 1865 he produced a life-size posthumous portrait of the bushranger Ben Hall, that included several the fatal gunshot ...
A professional photographer who worked in Fitzroy, Melbourne in 1866-1868. He was commissioned by the Melbourne Intercolonial Exhibition of 1866 to photograph the gallery interior ...
Thomas Felton took over the photographic studio of Edwin Dalton in 1865, keeping all the existing staff with the exception of William Bradley, who set ...
The adventurous Flintoff travelled in North America before reaching Melbourne, via Mexico and the Society Islands. This voyage formed the subject of his later paintings. ...
A Melbourne photographer who exhibited a set of photographs of colonial scenery, coloured by George Alexander Gilbert, at the 1861 Victorian Exhibition.
Keeping abreast of all the latest photographic inventions from the United States, Glaister's photographs were expensive but advertised as guaranteed never to fade.
Griffin was a sketcher, policeman, gold commissioner and murderer. He married and deserted a wealthy widow in Victoria in 1857. In 1867 Griffin robbed the ...
Thomas Griffiths was a travelling photographer. In 1867 he was charged with stealing '2 cameras, 2 lenses, and stands' from Henry Kerr. No arrest, however, ...
Engraver, lithographer, professional photographer, cartographer and publisher, arrived in Melbourne in 1842 and began to produce maps and other official documents for the Victorian government. ...