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Port Jackson Painter,
The 'Port Jackson Painter' is the name now used for an unidentified painter (or painters) - the most prolific of the First Fleet artists - ...
Raper, George, b. 1769
George Raper was a natural history painter and naval officer. In 1783 he entered the Royal Navy. His artistic legacy is his record of the ...
Ravenet, Juan, b. 1766
After lengthy negotiations by expedition leader Alessandro Malaspina, Juan Ravenet finally joined his friend in 1791 as resident figure painter on his voyage.
Rye, Peter
Peter Rye was a sketcher who also had a distinguished naval career until 1837. While he was at sea fighting the French in 1793, two ...
Clayton, Samuel, b. 1783
Portraitist, engraver, art teacher and silversmith born in Ireland. Transported to NSW, reputedly for forgery, he prospered in the colony.
Smith, Isaac, b. 1752
Relative of James Cook, he also served the navigator aboard the Endeavour in the voyage to Australia, and according to Cook particularly instrumental in making ...
Stone, Sarah, b. 1760
Sarah Stone worked as a painter and natural history illustrator in England between 1777 and 1820, and although she never visited the Pacific region she ...
Painter, Sydney Bird
natural history artist, was a contemporary of the Port Jackson Painter in Sydney in the late eighteenth century.
Sykes, John, b. 1773
Sketcher and naval officer, served as master's mate in the Discovery from 1790 to 1795 in its voyage around the world. In 1791 when Discovery ...
Tetley, Joseph Swabey
Colonial naval officer, attributed three volumes of twelve umber monochrome watercolours depicting illustrations of Australian Aborigines in Botany Bay.
Alt, Augustus Theodore, b. 1734
A surveyor and sketcher, whose view of Early Sydney in 1796 is in the collection of the National Library of Australia in Canberra.
Tobin, George, b. 1768
Naval officer and natural history painter who sketched on various voyages, including Captain William Bligh's voyage to Van Diemen's Land. Tobin became the first European ...
Price, John Washington
A sketcher and medical practitioner, Price's journal contains drawings of coastal scenery, local flora and fauna, Aborigines and buildings in Sydney.
Watling, Thomas, b. 1762
Painter, author and convict from Dumfries, Scotland, Watling was transported to Sydney in 1792. Most of Watling's work are of natural history subjects but there ...
Webber, John, b. 1752
Artist-draughtsman on Cook's third voyage. Webber was among the most travelled artists of his age. He was instrumental in the dissolution of the traditional concept ...
Bligh, William, b. 1754
Despite being a competent natural history painter, Bligh's artistic activity has been completely overshadowed by several unfortunate controversies including the mutiny of his crew on ...
Bradley, William, b. 1758
First Fleet naval officer and draughtsman, noted both for his excellent journal and for executing the first known view of Sydney.
Chapman, William Neate, b. 1773
Sketcher and public servant, Chapman was a family friend of first Governor Arthur Phillip but it was with Philip Gidley King that he first came ...
Hodges, William, b. 1744
Painter and sketcher, Hodges was born, educated and worked in London. From 1772-1775 he travelled the Pacific and to Norfolk Island as the official landscape ...
Lewin, John William, b. 1770
Colonial Sydney painter, art teacher and naturalist, was the first free artist to settle in New South Wales and attempted to make a living as ...