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Newman, Richard William, b. 1814
A painter and sketcher. His only known works are two drawings which are presumed to be from 1840. He worked as a public servant at ...
Nicholas, William, b. 1807
A watercolourist, etcher and lithographer who liked to depict Shakespearian and mythological subjects. He was best known for his portraits and actively took part in ...
Oglesby, William, b.
A photographer from London who was said to have produced the first hand-coloured daguerreotypes in South Australia between 1849 and 1851.
Phillips, William, b. 1803
William Phillips was a botanical artist, botanist and teacher. He was a friend of the explorer Ludwig Leichhardt. It is said that Phillips helped prepare ...
Piguenit, William Charles, b. 1836
Influential and widely exhibited late Colonial era Hobart and Sydney landscape painter, amateur photographer, draughtsman and explorer.
Strutt, William, b. 1825
Strutt was a productive and versatile painter and a founding member of the Victorian Society of Fine Arts. His most famous painting is undoubtedly 'Black ...
Stuart, William, b. 1826
A painter of still-life and marine subjects who arrived in Melbourne during the gold rush. Before arriving in Australia, Stuart exhibited at various London institutions. ...
Swainson, William, b. 1789
Natural history artist, illustrator, lithographer, naturalist and commissary. McMillan considers that 'His botanical work is unimportant; his claim to remembrance rests upon his zoological work ...
Thomas, William, b. 1822
W.R. Thomas was a competent watercolourist and a number of his works survive in private homes in South Australia.
Thomas, William, b. 1791
A sketcher who during the 1840s worked as a protector of Aborigines, who form the subject of his work.
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 ...
Wall, William Sheridan, b. 1815
curator of the Australian Museum from 1845 to 1858. Wall contributed natural history drawings on a regular basis to the first series of the Illustrated ...
Waugh, James William
Sketcher, stationer and art supplier, publisher and bookseller. Published 'Waugh and Cox's Directory of Sydney' in 1855. A sketchbook attributed to Waugh (ML) dates from ...
Westall, William, b. 1781
William Westall was the appointed landscape artist on Matthew Flinders' 1801 "Investigator" expedition which was the first maritime circumnavigation of Australia.
Weston, William Pritchard, b. 1804
Elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly and twice served short terms as premier. His fifteen known drawings in pencil, pen-and-ink and wash originally in ...
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, Henry
Colonial male oil painter, watercolourist and photographer from Hobart Town who painted children and hunters.
Williamstown from Hobson's Bay

by King, Philip Gidley.

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 ...
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 ...