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Mason, George, b. 1827
English colonial male wood engraver and painter who taught music and set up Brisbane's first theatre. Apart from being bankrupted twice, he advertised as an ...
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Hasler, George Henry Massey, b. 1841
Professional photographer and studio manager, worked for Johnstone, O'Shannessy & Co. at Melbourne in the late 1860s where his wife was a partner. His daughter ...
Massie, Hester, b. 1856
Colonial female artist who painted landscapes and wildflowers. She was part of a large and prominent Sydney merchant family.
Mather, John, b. 1848
Glasgow born and educated, John Mather came to Melbourne hoping to pursue a full time career as an artist, but for some years had to ...
Mather, John Baxter, b. 1853
Late colonial period Adelaide painter, illustrator, etcher, curator, critic and journalist. In 1913, Mather was director of the Art Gallery of South Australia.
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 ...
No laughing matter

by Alder, Anthony.

Displayed at Messrs Greenfield and Barraclough's amateur art exhibition 1892. It is suggested this piece is related to an example of taxidermy exhibited at the ...

Fern, Matthew, b. 1831
Matthew Fern was a woodcarver of exceptional skills who flourished in Queensland during the second half of the nineteenth century. It is difficult to extract ...
Creeth, May, b. 1854
May Creeth was born in 1854. She was a painter, china painter, teacher, photographer and pyrographer. Creeth trained in art at the South Kensington Schools ...
Gibbs, May, b. 1877
Creator of the famous tales of Snugglepot and Cuddlepie, the Gumnut babies, Gibbs began her career as a cartoonist and hoped to be recognised as ...
May, Alfred
Late colonial sketcher. May compiled 'A Week on the Wild Wave', a sketchbook held in Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW.
King, Charles McArthur, b. 1824
Charles McArthur King, was a sketcher, pastoralist and magistrate. A sketchbook of coastal and landscape scenes, mostly of New Zealand, drawn between 1850 and 1899 ...
McComas, Francis, b. 1874
Tasmanian born landscape painter who later trained and worked in Sydney, NSW. McComas later migrated to California where he made his name as an artist.
McCrae, George Gordon, b. 1833
Primarily a poet, McCrae kept a diary and sketched; his work was influenced by the Indigenous population at Arthur's Seat on the Mornington Peninsula. His ...
McCrae, Georgiana Huntly, b. 1804
A prolific painter. McCrae produced a variety of work throughout her life. She received much acclaim for her miniatures and portraits.
McCrae, Charles
Architect who was listed as a working member of the West Australian Society of Arts in 1896.
McCubbin, Frederick, b. 1855
From the 1880s, when his first mature work was painted, until just before his death in 1917, Frederick McCubbin painted some of Australia's most loved ...
McDonald, Donald
McDonald exhibited his photographs in several exhibitions, including the London International Exhibition, and worked as a professional photographer in Melbourne. One of his stand-out pictures ...
McDonald, Isabel Agnes, b. 1871
It is believed Isabel McDonald studied under both Frederick McCubbin and Tom Roberts, powerhouses of Australian romanticism. Roberts was certainly known to her though, even ...
McDonald and Sons
'McDonald and Sons,' monumental masons, advertised in 1901 that the firm had commenced business in 1862.