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Stubbs, William J.
Professional photographer, who worked for numerous photographic firms, purchasing his own, the Batchelder firm in 1868, and continuing there until 1889, when he retired.
Thomas, William, b. 1822
W.R. Thomas was a competent watercolourist and a number of his works survive in private homes in South Australia.
Thwaites, Walter William, b. 1814
A miniature painter and engraver, W.W. Thwaites (1814-1888)and sons established themselves as professional photographers in West and South Australia in the 1860s. However, despite such ...
Thwaites, Walter William McLean, b. 1840
Learnt photography in his father's Hobart studio, W. Thwaite jnr embarked on his own solo career touring every existing Australian colony from 1860 to 1888.
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Tibbits, William Taylor Smith, b. 1837
Tibbits produced many landscape drawings, views of public and private buildings and reproductions steel plate prints whilst residing in Victoria and Sydney. He travelled to ...
Vize, William Henry, b. 1833
William Henry Vize was a trained chemist who turned an amateur interest in photography into a second business producing portraits and landscape photographs in regional ...
Williams, Florence Elizabeth, b. 1833
Although Florence received little formal training she was exhibiting at the Royal Academy, London, by her late teens. Migrating permanently in 1873, Florence's paintings seem ...
Williams, J. R.
Male colonial landscape painter and customs officer who exhibited extensively in Melbourne, despite a critic suggesting he could have made more of a view of ...
Williams, Thomas S.
Male colonial photographer with numerous businesses who made xylographs popular before a fire burnt down his Collins Street studio in Melbourne.
Tremlett, Williamina Mary, b. 1827
Teacher, had a school in Hobart Town in 1869 where she taught English, music and drawing before becoming a governess to the Kermode family.
Willson, John Henry, b. 1822
Architect, decorator and scene painter. As city architect he designed the present facade and vestibule of the Sydney Town Hall as well as the Woolloomooloo ...
Wilmot, George C.
Professional photographer, ran a Portrait Gallery at 31 Malop Street, West Geelong, Victoria, in 1865-86 in partnership with Key. Wilmot & Key photographed 'King Jerry, ...
Wilshire, Alice Emily, b. 1848
Sketcher, second daughter of Austin Forrest Wilshire, a Sydney merchant, and Eliza, née Pitt, married Frank Lord in Sydney 1871. Her undated pencil sketch on ...
Wilshire, Isabel Eliza, b. 1846
Sketcher, eldest daughter of Austin Forrest Wilshire and Eliza, née Pitt, married Edward Southwell Ruthven on 31 March 1874. Her pencil drawing 'Garden Island' is ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, 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 ...
Wilson, William George, b. 1849
Painter, exhibited with the Queensland Art Society from 1892 to 1913.
Hack, Wilton, b. 1843
Painter, art teacher, pastoralist and utopian socialist, Hack taught drawing in Adelaide from 1868 to 1873. He travelled widely and a surviving sketchbook records foreign ...