Glover's direct experience of nature, both as a pioneer settler and painter, resulted in a fresh and vital approach to Australian painting. Subtleties of the ...
Colonial-era sketcher, painter, naval officer, and author, among other things, he lived in Van Diemen's Land variously as a convict and a free man. He ...
Naval surgeon who accompanied Governor Macquarie on the voyage to Sydney in 1809. Arnold produced 244 watercolour sketches of coastlines while outward bound, including views ...
J.L. initialled the four watercolours of Norfolk Island in Robert Jones's manuscript journal. However elements of the illustrations are not historically correct for the time ...
Natural history artist. Leseur travelled to Australia with a French expedition at the beginning of the nineteenth century, his drawings and etchings of local flora ...
Ferdinand Lucas Bauer never emigrated to Australia, but as part of the 1801 Flinders's expedition team, he captured some of the most detailed and beautiful ...
Female colonial artist of the famous Macarthur family who painted and sketched places where she lived and travelled, eventually establishing the Macarthur family home, Camden ...
Male colonial artist of the famous Macarthur family whose only known pictures are of Victorian landscapes, despite living in Tasmania and New South Wales.
Philanthropic colonial female painter whose detailed watercolours of flower arrangements included European and Australian flora. Her art was influenced by a lifelong association wih scientific ...
Colonial first lady: female designer of gardens and architecture whose paintings and sketches influenced major works in the fledgling colony of New South Wales. She ...
Botanical artist, arrived at Sydney in 1800, without her husband, and was forced to defend her honour against accusations of improper behaviour on the voyage. ...
Female colonial painter and embroiderer who taught indigenous children literacy in her Sunday school at Parramatta, while exerting considerable influence on her father, the Reverend, ...
English female colonial sketcher who drew pictures of where she lived in Parramatta, and recorded her voyage to England in her journal. She posed for ...
Female colonial poet, watercolourist and sketcher who posed for another painter in the act of painting flowers, although no floral still-lifes by her have been ...