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Manning, Jane, b. 1849
Female colonial photographer who briefly owned a photographic business. Afterwards she worked with her brother and without professional recognition, until she got married.
Mann, John Frederick, b. 1819
Colonial era NSW sketcher, amateur photographer and surveyor. In 1846 Mann was second-in-command on Ludwig Leichhardt's second exploring expedition.
Marchant, David, b. 1850
David Marchant was a cabinetmaker. He was born around 1850. Marchant fabricated a presentation casket to Queen Victoria in 1887 on the occasion of her ...
Baskerville, Margaret Frances Ellen, b. 1861
Despite training across several artistic disciplines Baskerville is best known for her sculpture, indeed she is regarded as Victoria's first professional woman sculptor. In 1911 ...
Flockton, Margaret Lilian, b. 1861
A highly regarded natural history illustrator, as well as a painter and successful commercial artist, Sydney-based Flockton worked for a number of years illustrating the ...
Forrest, Margaret Elvire, b. 1844
Painter, botanical artist and the wife of John Forrest who was elected Premier of Western Australia in 1890. Margaret was also politically active and a ...
Hope, Margaret Anderson, b. 1848
Painter, wax modeller and art teacher, Hope was born and worked in Tasmania. She gained a reputation for her paintings of Tasmanian wildflowers on wooden ...
Armstrong, Mary Ann, b. 1838
Mary Ann Armstrong (1838-1910) was a botanical fern artist who participated in a number of international and intercolonial exhibitions. She compiled and artistically arranged fern ...
Baas, Marie
Baas was a flower painter who exhibited with the Royal Art Society of New South Wales in 1886. A later exhibition in 1890 drew the ...
Badgery, Mary Ann, b. 1814
Marriage and nine sons meant that Mary Ann Badgery never realised her ambitions to establish herself as an art teacher however she painted and exhibited ...
Bundock, Mary, b. 1845
Bundock was only eight years old when discovered her love of flower painting, when family friend and flower painter Bessie Wilson gave her "a small ...
Card, Mary, b. 1861
Designer and 'crochet pattern designer'. By 1917 Mary Card was a celebrity. In the early to mid 1920s Card moved to a small village outside ...
Gore, Mary Jane, b. 1858
Mary Jane and two of her sisters were avid papier-mâchè modellers, creating dozens of wax implanted, hair coated models of sheep, kangaroos and cattle.
Greig, Mary Augusta, b. 1845
Mrs and Miss Greig were art students who exhibited work in Launceston in 1885 as pupils of Monsieur Maurice.
Hambly, Mary, b. 1817
Oil painter and dressmaker, arrived in Sydney 1840 and ran a dressmaking/tailoring business with her husband in various NSW locations. She painted portraits in oils.
Benham, Ann Maria, b. 1837
Ann Maria Benham migrated to South Australia as a child and later began exhibiting her paintings with the South Australian Society of Arts. She is ...
Macarthur, Emmeline Maria, b. 1828
Colonial female painter and drawer of the famous Macarthur family who documented her life in pictures that are now missing. Fortunately she refers to these ...
Booth, Marian
Marian Booth was an exhibitor at the 1880 Melbourne International Exhibition. A painter, Booth worked with fabric, painting variously on satin, cotton velvet and white ...