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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 ...
Glover, John, b. 1790
Named after his famous father, John Glover junior also painted Tasmanian subjects. John junior also farmed the family land while his father painted.
Becker, Ludwig, b. 1808
An undervalued member of the fateful Burke and Wills expedition, Ludwig Becker was an accomplished artist and naturalist whose contribution to the expedition has belatedly ...
Macarthur, James, b. 1813
Male colonial artist of the famous Macarthur family whose only known pictures are of Victorian landscapes, despite living in Tasmania and New South Wales.
Englehard, A. Marie
Englehard's watercolour 'My Daughters Victoria and Ann, Perth, Australia. 1838' is perhaps more likely to be Perth, Tasmania as no Englehard is listed as living ...
Baxter, Annie Maria, b. 1816
Annie Maria Baxter was a prolific writer who kept meticulous diaries of her life in Australia. Her few surviving drawings are now held at the ...
Merrett, Charles
Little is known of painter and teacher Charles Merret but that he was John Glover's only known Tasmanian pupil. A work attributed to him is ...
Jacob,
Colonial-era teacher of drawing to young ladies in Tasmania.
Allport, Mary Morton, b. 1806
Painter of landscapes, flowers, natural history studies and portrait miniatures. Allport's etchings, engravings and lithographs were the first to have been made by a woman ...
Mundy, Godfrey Charles, b. 1804
Sketcher, soldier and author, made pen and pencil drawings in New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania and New Zealand. Mundy died in London on 10 July ...
Kentish, Nathaniel Lipscomb, b. 1797
The self-styled 'Amateur Poet Laureate' of Victoria, Kentish owned and published the 'Sydney Times' from 1834-1838 which doubtless featured his own poems, drawings and engravings. ...
Art and Natural History Exhibition

by Chapman, Thomas Evans.

Offor,
a scene-painter, Offor and Robert Neill's scenery painting for a concert at the Freemason's Hotel, Hobart Town, was executed 'in a bold and pleasing style' ...
Mitchell, J. P.
Sketcher and teacher, offered drawing lessons at the Young Ladies Establishment, New Norfolk, Van Diemen's Land in 1835.
Palmer, , b. 1831
Although untrained, Palmer's hand has created little glimpses into rural Tasmanian life in the nineteenth century we would not otherwise have had.
Peck, George Henry, b. 1810
George Henry Peck was a painter, carver, art dealer, art entrepreneur and musician. He arrived at Hobart Town in June 1833 and in July had ...
Powell, John
Tasmanian based family who offered teaching of music, singing and drawing.
Prinsep, Elizabeth Acworth, b. 1804
Elizabeth Acworth Prinsep is best known for editing her husband's letters into Journal of a Voyage from Calcutta to Van Diemen's Land, published in 1833. ...
Beauchamp, Robert Proctor, b. 1819
Born into a privileged family, Beauchamp married an heiress after travelling between England, New Zealand and Victoria for a number of years. They finally settled ...
Ross, James, b. 1786
James Ross was an engraver, teacher, editor and printer. He was appointed joint government printer and editor of the Hobart Town Gazette in June 1825. ...