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Wall, William Sheridan, b. 1815
curator of the Australian Museum from 1845 to 1858. Wall contributed natural history drawings on a regular basis to the first series of the Illustrated ...
White, William
Drawing teacher and architect. He designed St Paul's Church of England at West Maitland that is still in use.
Williams, Florence Elizabeth, b. 1833
Although Florence received little formal training she was exhibiting at the Royal Academy, London, by her late teens. Migrating permanently in 1873, Florence's paintings seem ...
Williams, Henry
Colonial male oil painter, watercolourist and photographer from Hobart Town who painted children and hunters.
Williams, Thomas S.
Male colonial photographer with numerous businesses who made xylographs popular before a fire burnt down his Collins Street studio in Melbourne.
Willson, John Henry, b. 1822
Architect, decorator and scene painter. As city architect he designed the present facade and vestibule of the Sydney Town Hall as well as the Woolloomooloo ...
Wilshire, William Pitt, b. 1807
Native colonial whose claim to fame as first-born Australian artist belied the fact he took up landscape only because of the threat of photography to ...
Niven, Francis Wilson, b. 1831
A sketcher, photographer, lithographer, carver, printer and stationary manufacturer. Upon arriving in Ballarat, Niven purchased a lithographic press from Alfred Ronalds for £40 - said ...
Wilson, F. W.
Watercolour painter, signed a view, 'The Paddle Steamer Gondola' (1855) held at the La Trobe Collection, State Library of Victoria.
Wilson, James, b. 1827
James Glen Wilson was a landscape painter, naval photographer and surveyor. Irish born, Wilson was chosen to accompany the expedition to the South Seas. This ...
Wilson, James, b. 1804
James Armstrong Wilson was a portrait and figure painter born in Scotland. A resident of Sydney and surrounding areas he drowned in a storm with ...
Wilson, Bessie, b. 1836
A flower painter who died young.
Wilson, John Noble, b. 1832
Wilson worked as a photographer in Ballarat from 1854. It is thought that he may have spent a year or two as a travelling photographer. ...
Wilson, Ralph, b. 1827
English colonial architect and watercolourist who designed half of Melbourne while continuing to paint despite one critic describing his art as curry powder and mouldy ...
Wilson, William, b. 1810
William Wilson, framemaker, carver and gilder, produced decorative gilt frames in Launceston from his arrival in about 1842 until the mid-1850s. John Glover, Joseph Mathias ...
Wilson, William H., b. 1795
Wilson was an illustrator and wood-engraver who came to Sydney in 1828 where he took up premises as one of the few commercial artist-engravers in ...