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Streeter, Kate, b. 1842
Painter and teacher, was born in Cork, Ireland and came to Victoria with her parents. The myth of Sheppard as a prodigy persisted throughout her ...
Annual Exhibition in connection with the Pitt Street Congregational Sunday Schools

by Canvin, M., Milgrove, .

Tebbitt, Henri, b. 1852
During the first decade of the twentieth century Henri Tebbitt was one of the most succesful landscape artists working in Australia. He is best known ...
Bosley, Thomas George Dufty, b. 1867
Thomas George Dufty Bosley was a talented and professional potter who began his career at the age of nine, when he became an apprentice at ...
Mathewson, Thomas, b. 1842
Scottish colonial male orphan who set up a photography business after being taught by an Ipswich reverend. By the time he died, his horse driven ...
Thomas, Margaret, b. 1843
painter and sculptor, the only woman in any of the Australian colonies known to have modelled large-scale sculptures. She was successful enough to retire on ...
Roberts, Tom, b. 1856
One of Australia's most iconic painters, Tom Roberts was an early champion of plein-air painting and together with Frederick McCubbin, Roberts helped establish the famous ...
Vaughan, H.
H. Vaughan was an amateur photographer who advertised a camera and chemicals for sale in August 1865.
Cook, Ebenezer Wake, b. 1844
Landscape painter and professional photographic colourist. Born in England and resident of Geelong and Melbourne, Victoria.
Barnett, H. Walter, b. 1862
A professional photographer working in Australia and Europe in the late nineteenth, early twentieth century, Barnett was arguably Australia's first world-class portrait photographer. His sitters ...
Marchant, Edwin Walter, b. 1849
Part of a large family of photographers, Edwin Marchant emigrated from England to South Australia in 1861. His main interest was in portraiture, where he ...
Beattie, John Watt, b. 1859
John Watt Beattie was a collector and photographer in turn-of-the-century Tasmania. Three years before his death in 1930, Launceston City Council purchased his collection of ...
White, John, b. 1851
Training in Melbourne in the 1860s and Edinburgh in the 1870s White's landscape, portrait and genre subject paintings were exhibited at the Royal Academy and ...
Whiting, Ada, b. 1858
Oil and watercolour painter and miniaturist, was born in Hobart, Tasmania. She was a rapid worker, painting up to three miniatures a week, landscapes, flowers ...
Boyd, William Alexander Jenyns, b. 1842
A.J. Boyd was involved in the teaching profession for a good part of his life. In 1882 his book "Old Colonials" was published and which ...
Lindt, John William, b. 1845
Professional photographer, was born in Germany. Known as the first person to successful attempt the representation of the 'native blacks truthfully as well as artistically'. ...
Lister, William Lister, b. 1859
As well as being a prolific landscape artist, Lister was President of the Royal Art Society of NSW and a trustee of the National Art ...
Centenary of Brisbane painting from savages to skyscrapers 1828-1928 in Seven Wonders exhibition,

by Bustard, William.

Woodhouse, Herbert James, b. 1858
Late colonial period Melbourne painter, illustrator, printmaker and sculptor, is buried in Geelong Cemetery, Victoria.
à Beckett, Constance Matilda, b. 1860
Colonial female who painted for distraction, while her family was parodied in her nephew's novels as the product of a nouveau-riche convict father, whose descendants ...