Described by his contemporaries as 'the most handsome man ever to come through Cunningham's Gap', the watercolourist and polymath George Fairholme had a fairytale life. ...
Painter, photographer and drawing master in Hobart and Sydney in the mid to late nineteeth century. Bull arrived in Australia as a convict, having been ...
J.L. initialled the four watercolours of Norfolk Island in Robert Jones's manuscript journal. However elements of the illustrations are not historically correct for the time ...
Scene-painter, painted the scenery for South Australia's first theatrical venue, ambitiously christened the Theatre Royal, in the room above the Adelaide Tavern in May 1838. ...
Lauvergne was from a family with no previous naval tradition. He first arrived in Australia on board the 'Astrolabe' for its 1826/1829 voyage of the ...
19th Century Tasmanian Aboriginal artist of the Larmairretorhe people (Northern Tribe) whose drawing of a cockatoo is in the collection of the Tasmanian Museum and ...
Kuper was a naval office who came to Australia to help establish a garrison in Port Essington (Northern Territory). Later as Captain of the Pelorus ...
Natural history artist. Leseur travelled to Australia with a French expedition at the beginning of the nineteenth century, his drawings and etchings of local flora ...
Nineteenth-century Polish-born sketcher and lithographer, among many other occupations in a chequered career. He made many lithographs of Australian subjects, not always his own work.
Swiss landscape painter and portrait photographer, settled in Melbourne in 1864, admired by the artists from the Heidelberg area such as Tom Roberts and Arthur ...