A watercolourist and lithographer who worked in Sydney in the 1840s and 1850s Ellis produced landscape paintings of Sydney and lithographs of its churches.
Professional photographers inadvertently associated with the legal battle and commercial rivalry between Antoine François Jean Claudet and Richard Beard over the patent for daguerreotypes. The ...
Jacob Grossman was a professional photographer who produced calotype (salted paper) and collodiotype (albumen print) portrait photographs in Sydney in 1858-59.
This diverse artist practised as a painter, lithographer and professional photographer. His works encompassed portrait, landscape and still life genres. Exhibiting in Adelaide, Melbourne and ...
James Ebenezer Bicheno arrived in Van Dieman's Land for a position as Colonial Secretary. Active in the artistic community of Hobart in the 1840s and ...
An eminent US scholar, considered to be "a towering figure in the history of geology". Dana's contribution to Australian geology was his description and mapping ...
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 ...
Scottish born painter, policeman, husband and father. He is known only for one work, 'Cameron's Farm, Myponga' (1866), a competent representation of contemporary rural life.
A professional photographer who claimed to have visited all the principal towns in Victoria before coming to Brisbane. He toured Queensland and was willing to ...