An anthropologist and collector who drew sketches of Aboriginal artefacts when collecting in the Northern Territory in the late 19th/early 20th centuries.
Influential Federation era Adelaide painter, illustrator and art teacher. Ashton, the father of painter Will Ashton, is best known for establishing the Academy of Arts, ...
A well travelled painter, in 1876 Carse was regarded as 'perhaps the best painter in the colony' with his landscapes, depicting locations from all around ...
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 ...
Frederick James 'Fred' Elliott, 1864-1949, was a prolific watercolour painter and lithographer, active in Sydney from the 1890s to the 1920s, specialising in marine subjects.
As well as developing a thriving timber export industry, Fenton found time for sketching and producing views of Tasmania which were published in Melbourne newspapers ...
Professional photographers, had a studio in Crown Street, Wollongong, New South Wales, in 1868-69. From 1884 to 1892 they operated the London Portrait Studio at ...
A Federation era Bulletin cartoonist and painter, based mainly in Melbourne, Alfred Vincent was the first visual artist to join the Melbourne Savage Club.
Early 20th century Indigenous Sydney shellworkers. The first recorded commercial sales of shellwork is from the late 1800s. Indigenous women sold their work mainly to ...
Federation-era Broken Hill political cartoonist. Jenkinson contributed cartoons to the Barrier Daily Truth in the 1890s, a paper sympathetic to the miners' federation.