An anthropologist and collector who drew sketches of Aboriginal artefacts when collecting in the Northern Territory in the late 19th/early 20th centuries.
Adela J. Hitchcock designed and made 'The Great War Sampler' in order to commemorate the war service of her nephew, Private Cecil Valrent de Putron ...
Glaze specialist who worked on the development of Bendigo Pottery's Langley ware in the 1910s before starting his own pottery in Castlemaine, later working for ...
Influential Federation era Adelaide painter, illustrator and art teacher. Ashton, the father of painter Will Ashton, is best known for establishing the Academy of Arts, ...
Popular and influential mid 20th century Sydney and Melbourne cartoonist and illustrator. Bancks is best known as the creator of Ginger Meggs and for a ...
Early 20th century painter and illustrator and the younger brother of the painter Henry J. Crisp. James Crisp lived alternatively in Sydney and California for ...
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 ...
Frederick James 'Fred' Elliott, 1864-1949, was a prolific watercolour painter and lithographer, active in Sydney from the 1890s to the 1920s, specialising in marine subjects.
Federation era Brisbane painter, illustrator and political cartoonist. Hingston contributed to publications including Truth and Worker and from 1902-1903 he worked for the Daily Mail ...
Early 20th century Indigenous Sydney shellworkers. The first recorded commercial sales of shellwork is from the late 1800s. Indigenous women sold their work mainly to ...
Mid 20th century Sydney freelance cartoonist and publisher who contributed to publications including the Bulletin, Smith's Weekly and The Comic Australian.
Hilder's delicate, sensitive landscape watercolours were enthusiastically received when they were first exhibited in the early years of the century. This was in part because ...