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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, Ada

Ada Wilson was a lacemaker and designer. She was president of the committee for the promotion of a School of Lace Design in Hobart in ...

Wilson, Dorothy Elspeth, b. 1878

Dorothy Elspeth Wilson (Mrs Richard Wardill) was a very talented bookbinder. In 1906 she invited a group of six decorative artists and together they decided ...

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.

Wilson, Dora L., b. 1883

Best known for her street scenes showing figures in dappled light, Dora Wilson was also a printmaker who was awarded a silver medal for the ...

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 ...

Pender, John Wiltshire

John Wiltshire Pender was a sketcher, architect and builder. He arrived in the Maitland, NSW in 1857. In 1863 Pender set up his architectural practice ...

The Victory Win, Melbourne

by Brinkwater, Peter.

Winckler, Ruby, b. 1886

Ruby Winckler was a painter and illustrator who exhibited with the NSW Society of Artists. Winckler spent some time in America after accepting a commission ...

Betts, Winifred, b. 1875

Winifred Betts was a painter and craftworker in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She exhibited her student work at the Sydney Exhibition of ...

Fletcher, Winifred Scott, b. 1871

A carver and metalworker Fletcher worked almost exclusively with pewter thanks to improvements in manufacturing. A founding member of the Arts and Crafts Society of ...

Honey, Constance Winifred, b. 1892

Painter, arrived from England as a child and studied at the National Gallery School in Melbourne. In 1911 she won a travelling scholarship and returned ...

Rumney, Winifred, b. 1870

Winifred May Quinnell, born 1870 in Multan, Pakistan (then India), arriving in Australia with her family in 1889. Lived in Brisbane from 1890 where she ...

Albury, Winn, b. 1896

Twentieth century female watercolourist who worked as a commercial in Sydney and Sacremento, California. Work found amongst her estate included a number of designs for ...