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Montefiore, Eliezer, b. 1820
Sketcher, etcher, art patron, gallery director and businessman, he helped establish the New South Wales Academy of Art and the National Art Gallery of New ...
Morison, A.
painter, wax modeller and clergyman, Melbourne
Lewis, Mortimer, b. 1796
Colonial Architect of NSW, came to Sydney in March 1830. National Portrait Gallery holds a pair of miniatures in watercolour on ivory of Mortimer and ...
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 ...
Beilby,
Mr. Beilby showed seven paintings at the 1847 Exhibition of Colonial Artists in Adelaide. The works, which included landscape and figurative works, received mixed reviews.
Fitchett,
A scene-painter and carpenter who painted the scenery for performances at the Theatre Royal in 1833 and who redecorated the auditorium of the Royal Victoria ...
Harrison,
Sketcher and surveyor, was one of the surveyors who laid out Australind, the Western Australian Company's settlement in the early 1840s.
Kemp,
Possibly the unknown artist who painted 'The Farm of Major William Nairn near York WA' auctioned through Sotheby's in November 1998.
Kesterton,
A photographic showman, Kesterton gave one of the first public magic-lantern shows in Adelaide in 1848.
Levinge,
Illustrator, illuminator and designer, illuminated an address presented to Rev. Dr John Bede Polding, in the late 1840s. It was later praised as a masterpiece ...
Lightwood,
Lightwood was one of Melbourne's earliest practising scenic artists. In 1843 the 'Port Phillip Herald' praised his scenery for George Buckingham's production of All for ...
Lockwood,
Portraitist, draughtsman and conman, was a Van Diemen's Land expiree committed for trial in 1848 for defrauding his Melbourne employers, ironmongers Richardson & White.
Elliot,
A sketcher whose painting titled 'The Houble', Emu Plains, New South Wales (1849) was auctioned at Bonham's (London) in 1989.
Forster,
A teacher who was offering classes in 'drawing and perspective' at her Bagdad Seminary, Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania), in 1845.
M.,
Female artist who sketched her house before it burned down. Her work is held in the National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT.