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Wilshire, William Pitt, b. 1807
Native colonial whose claim to fame as first-born Australian artist belied the fact he took up landscape only because of the threat of photography to ...
Cooper, George Wilson, b. 1912
Wilson Cooper was a man of many parts but principally an accomplished watercolourist, a proficient cartoonist and animator, a capable sculptor and finally, a respected ...
Muir Wilson, Toby
Niven, Francis Wilson, b. 1831
A sketcher, photographer, lithographer, carver, printer and stationary manufacturer. Upon arriving in Ballarat, Niven purchased a lithographic press from Alfred Ronalds for £40 - said ...
Smythe, Henry Wilson Hutchinson, b. 1815
Colonial artist, primarily skilled in cartography, originally arriving in the Swan River Settlement with his family. As a result of dishonesty surrounding his father's employment, ...
Wilson, James, b. 1827
James Glen Wilson was a landscape painter, naval photographer and surveyor. Irish born, Wilson was chosen to accompany the expedition to the South Seas. This ...
Wilson, James, b. 1804
James Armstrong Wilson was a portrait and figure painter born in Scotland. A resident of Sydney and surrounding areas he drowned in a storm with ...
Wilson, Ambrose
sketcher and teacher, in Sydney. An inscription attributes the sketch '[Country] House of Sir Francis Forbes, Emu Plains, Nepean' (ML) to him. Two of his ...
Wilson, Charles
Charles Wilson was a professional photographer who brought the sennotype process to Australia. He came to Melbourne in 1862 and claimed to own the Australian ...
Wilson, Charles Algernon, b. 1818
Charles Algernon Wilson was not only a natural history painter and sketcher but also a solicitor, public servant and entomologist. In 1860 he was elected ...
Wilson, David Henry, b. 1913
Mid 20th century painter and cartoonist, David Wilson's work is held in the collection of the Australian War Memorial in Canberra.
Wilson, Edward, b. 1813
Colonial Melbourne editor and farmer who, as an amateur cartoonist, compiled an illustrated book of his life on the farm as a gift to his ...
Wilson, John Noble, b. 1832
Wilson worked as a photographer in Ballarat from 1854. It is thought that he may have spent a year or two as a travelling photographer. ...
Wilson, Lawrence George, b. 1920
Photographer, lived and worked in Geelong.
Wilson, Martin, b. 1974
Made a series of woollen hook rug portraits of Australia's 25 Prime Ministers for exhibition titled Fuzzy Prime Ministers.
Wilson, Ralph, b. 1827
English colonial architect and watercolourist who designed half of Melbourne while continuing to paint despite one critic describing his art as curry powder and mouldy ...
Wilson, Trevor
Cartoonist.
Wilson, William, b. 1810
William Wilson, framemaker, carver and gilder, produced decorative gilt frames in Launceston from his arrival in about 1842 until the mid-1850s. John Glover, Joseph Mathias ...
Wilson, William H., b. 1795
Wilson was an illustrator and wood-engraver who came to Sydney in 1828 where he took up premises as one of the few commercial artist-engravers in ...
Wilson, William John, b. 1833
Scene painter and stage designer for various London and Sydney based theatre companies. Wilson also painted Australian coastal scenes, rural English landscapes and views in ...