Mid 20th century political cartoonist, a "cheerful, hard-drinking Bohemian who had started his career at the piano of a Melbourne silent picture show" - George ...
Professional photographer in Bendigo and Melbourne, Victoria. He was primarily a studio photographer but he also produced photographs of early business premises and public buildings ...
Professional photographer and entrepreneur born in London. Resident of Melbourne, Ballarat and Daylesford he documented the explorers and early colonists of Victoria. Much of Chuck's ...
Scene-painter, journalist, politician and businessman born in London. Resident of Melbourne, Victoria he painted theatrical scenery to pay for his education.
Wood engraver, born in Ireland. Clayton was convicted of forgery and transported to NSW with his father where he went on to become Sydney's leading ...
An artist of English origin, Duckett came to Australia in the 1860's. Despite befriending Eugène Von Guérard he found Melbourne hostile and moved to Sydney, ...
A professional photographer who worked in Fitzroy, Melbourne in 1866-1868. He was commissioned by the Melbourne Intercolonial Exhibition of 1866 to photograph the gallery interior ...
The adventurous Flintoff travelled in North America before reaching Melbourne, via Mexico and the Society Islands. This voyage formed the subject of his later paintings. ...
A Melbourne photographer who exhibited a set of photographs of colonial scenery, coloured by George Alexander Gilbert, at the 1861 Victorian Exhibition.
Early 20th century painter and newspaper cartoonist who resided in Wellington, NZ, Melbourne and Sydney. Glover artistic skills first came to attention while working as ...
Griffin was a sketcher, policeman, gold commissioner and murderer. He married and deserted a wealthy widow in Victoria in 1857. In 1867 Griffin robbed the ...
Thomas Griffiths was a travelling photographer. In 1867 he was charged with stealing '2 cameras, 2 lenses, and stands' from Henry Kerr. No arrest, however, ...