Female colonial photographer who briefly owned a photographic business. Afterwards she worked with her brother and without professional recognition, until she got married.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 was only eight years old when discovered her love of flower painting, when family friend and flower painter Bessie Wilson gave her "a small ...
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.
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.
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 ...
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 ...