Wife of a missionary, Jane King helped establish a school in Fremantle, Western Australia. Her sketches depicted local landscapes and indigenous inhabitants.
David Kirk is a mid-career Abstract Expressionist painter based in Sydney. Inspiration for his work comes from the sea, nocturnal animals, poetry and the environment.
Described by his contemporaries as 'the most handsome man ever to come through Cunningham's Gap', the watercolourist and polymath George Fairholme had a fairytale life. ...
Painter, photographer and drawing master in Hobart and Sydney in the mid to late nineteeth century. Bull arrived in Australia as a convict, having been ...
Shipbuilder and and merchant seaman, John Korff ran a shipbuilding business with his sons in Sydney and later Korffs (Coffs) Harbour. He made sketches while ...
Drawing teacher, advertised in Sydney in August 1844 that she wished 'to engage with a gentleman's family, either as resident or visiting governess. She is ...
J.L. initialled the four watercolours of Norfolk Island in Robert Jones's manuscript journal. However elements of the illustrations are not historically correct for the time ...
A self-confessed adventurer, Lacy 'bade adieu to Old England and sailed for the Antipodes'. As a skilled and amused observer of social foibles and appearances ...
Western Australian artist of Noongar and Yamatji descent whose landscape images have been influenced by the works of the Carrolup artists and Hans Heysen.
Sketcher, architect and public servant, was in Melbourne by 10 August 1852. Despite his impressive references he lost his position at the Victorian government's Colonial ...
Lang was a settler originating from Scotland. His artistic exploits included sketching, photography and lithography. He occupied the property Terrinallum, near Mortlake, Victoria, between 1839 ...