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Thomas, Margaret, b. 1843
painter and sculptor, the only woman in any of the Australian colonies known to have modelled large-scale sculptures. She was successful enough to retire on ...
Thunder, A. C.
Thunder was an amateur artist prior to her marriage copying portraits from the court of Louis XIV. Once in Melbourne her artistic career took off ...
Stewart, John Tiffin, b. 1829
Stewart, John Tiffin, was a sketcher, surveyor and engineer, who was in the 1866 Melbourne Intercolonial Exhibition as a colonial engineer who provided the sketch ...
Durkin, Tom, b. 1853
Colonial political cartoonist.
Roberts, Tom, b. 1856
One of Australia's most iconic painters, Tom Roberts was an early champion of plein-air painting and together with Frederick McCubbin, Roberts helped establish the famous ...
Sani, Tomaso, b. 1839
Italian-born sculptor Tomaso Sani, along with Luigi del Vescovo, was responsible for the controversial basso-relievo carvings on Sydney's General Post Office in 1883. He carved ...
Bateman, Edward La Trobe, b. 1816
Although seeking his fortune in the Victorian goldfields, Edward La Trobe Bateman instead drifted into work as an illustrator and landscape designer. One of his ...
Troedel, Charles, b. 1835
Described in his obituary as 'leading exponent of the lithographic branch of the printing trade', Troedel, founder of the legacy of what eventually became the ...
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Turner, Thomas, b. 1813
An architect, surveyor and selector, his drawings show a sharp eye for domestic detail and include humble buildings and people going about their everyday life.
Urie, James, b. 1828
Slater & Glazier, born in Kilmarnock, Scotland. He was an apprentice of James Ferguson in Wallacetown, Ayr. Both men came to Australia in late 1852 ...
Urquhart, Thomas, b. 1824
Thomas Urquhart was a colonial era Victorian caricaturist, army officer(?) and remittance man(?). He was exiled to Australia after he married Mary Norrie. His hobby ...
Commons, F. W.
Commons was a monumental mason, trained in Europe, who was commissioned to carve four allegorical figures for Parliament House, Melbourne, though it never eventuated due ...
Cook, Ebenezer Wake, b. 1844
Landscape painter and professional photographic colourist. Born in England and resident of Geelong and Melbourne, Victoria.
Barnett, H. Walter, b. 1862
A professional photographer working in Australia and Europe in the late nineteenth, early twentieth century, Barnett was arguably Australia's first world-class portrait photographer. His sitters ...
Osborne, John Walter, b. 1828
Photographer and inventor of world's first commercially viable photolithographic process, adopted by Government of Victoria in 1861. Osborne's invention proved successful in England, Germany and ...
Welch, Edwin J.
Along with James Murray, Welch was the expedition photographer for the Victorian government relief party to the Burke and Wills expedition in 1861. Welch had ...
Weller, James
Professional photographer, was listed in the Ballarat Directory for 1865-66.
Burtt, John Wesley, b. 1839
Burtt is a minor Victorian artist who created the large historical painting depicting John Batman meeting with Victorian Aboriginal Chiefs in 1835.
White, John, b. 1851
Training in Melbourne in the 1860s and Edinburgh in the 1870s White's landscape, portrait and genre subject paintings were exhibited at the Royal Academy and ...
Whiting, Ada, b. 1858
Oil and watercolour painter and miniaturist, was born in Hobart, Tasmania. She was a rapid worker, painting up to three miniatures a week, landscapes, flowers ...