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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 ...

Wilmot, George C.

Professional photographer, ran a Portrait Gallery at 31 Malop Street, West Geelong, Victoria, in 1865-86 in partnership with Key. Wilmot & Key photographed 'King Jerry, ...

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 ...

Wilson's Promontory

by Jobson, Frederick James.

Wash drawing

Wilson's Promontory and Bass Strait

by Marshall, James.

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, Charles

Charles Wilson was a professional photographer who brought the sennotype process to Australia. He came to Melbourne in 1862 and claimed to own the Australian ...

Wilson, Emily M.

Sketcher, won the 3-guinea prize for the best drawing from the round at exhibitions of the South Australian Society of Arts in 1863 and 1865. ...

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 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 ...

Wilson, William John, b. 1833

Scene painter and stage designer for various London and Sydney based theatre companies. Wilson also painted Australian coastal scenes, rural English landscapes and views in ...

Hack, Wilton, b. 1843

Painter, art teacher, pastoralist and utopian socialist, Hack taught drawing in Adelaide from 1868 to 1873. He travelled widely and a surviving sketchbook records foreign ...

Pender, John Wiltshire

John Wiltshire Pender was a sketcher, architect and builder. He arrived in the Maitland, NSW in 1857. In 1863 Pender set up his architectural practice ...