Helen Creeth was born in 1859. She was a painter, china painter, teacher and photographer. Creeth trained as an art teacher at the South Kensington ...
Painter, married American plein-air painter Birge Harrison and travelled extensively throughout the USA and Europe. She exhibited throughout the 1880s/1890s to some acclaim.
Aldridge was a Melbourne-based professional photographer who not only took photographs but also sold photographs and built photographic equipment from his shop on Queen St ...
A sketcher, civil servant and land speculator, Bowman studied under the well-known painter Thomas Sandby while at the British Military Academy at Woolwich. Arriving in ...
Burn's watercolour and oil landscapes demonstrate his success in capturing the changing effects of light and atmosphere as well as incorporating interesting contemporary details.
Considered by contemporary critics to be a 'poet-painter' of colonial subjects. His Turner-esque technique nevertheless came to be considered overly stylised which may explain why, ...
Henry Deering was a scenic artist and theatrical producer. In 1851 he was credited with painting the moving diorama introduced into the pantomime he produced ...
A sketcher, actor and entomologist, Edwards worked in Australia as an actor and made natural history sketches. He ultimately owned one of the largest insect ...