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 ...
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.
Daughter of Jessie Rebecca Cowley, was taught needlework and lacemaking from a very young age. Along with her mother and sister, helped support the family ...
Hilder's delicate, sensitive landscape watercolours were enthusiastically received when they were first exhibited in the early years of the century. This was in part because ...