Nineteenth century art and language teacher, exhibition organiser, theatrical entrepreneur and property developer he played a major part in expanding colonial Australian representation in international ...
Samuel Charles Brees moved between England the the antipodes at regular intervals and was an architect, engineer, author and entrepreneur of renown in the colonies. ...
Influenced by his teacher John Skinner Prout and by Conrad Martens, Elyard favoured picturesque buildings, street scenes and landscapes. He was a colourful figure who ...
Johann Gotthilf Samuel Hoffman was a potter from Rowland Flat, South Australia. Examples of Hoffman's work c. 1847-1885 are held at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney.
Samuel Augustus Perry was a watercolourist, surveyor and soldier. Appointed deputy surveyor-general of New South Wales, he arrived in Australia in 1829. Perry, with Captain ...
A mezzotint and wood engraver, Sadd migrated to Australia in 1853 by way of North America. Most of his Victorian work, based on photographs, consists ...
Sarah Ann Fogg lived variously in Germany, Italy, South Africa and Tasmania and had many opportunities for studying the great Western works of Europe. It ...
French draughtsman, cartographic surveyor and naturalist, Freycinet's atlases document many Australian subjects including early architectural drawings of Sydney Barracks.