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Alder, Anthony, b. 1838
Anthony Alder was a Brisbane-based taxidermist who is also known for his paintings of Australian fauna, particularly ornithological subjects.
Austin, William
Draughtsman and painter who exhibited his watercolours in Victoria, Queensland and London. Austin witnessed the arrival of the first gold escort and depicted this event ...
Backler, Joseph, b. 1813
Joseph Backler made the best of his transportation to Australia by becoming a prolific and highly regarded portrait painter. He travelled the east coast taking ...
Bartley, N.
N. Bartley was an artist and/or an exhibitor at the Melbourne International Exhibition in 1880. There is some speculation Bartley is the author Naham Bartley.
Bevan, Edward, b. 1854
Arriving from England in the 1870s, Edward Bevan moved to Townsville and established himself as a surveyor and later as a newspaper editor. He was ...
Birkett, Rowena, b. 1860
Rowena Birkett was a natural history painter who is credited with assisting naturalist and artist Silvester Diggles with the illustrations and colouring of some of ...
Broinowski, Gracius Joseph, b. 1837
Peripatetic artist who produced copious landscape images and sold them off inventively (through art unions). Finally settling down in Sydney, he taught in various private ...
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Campbell, John, b. 1855
Scenic painter and decorator who worked in Western Australia, Queensland, New South Wales and Tasmania. Campbell also painted views of places and buildings around Perth.
Clarke, Joseph Augustine, b. 1840
Illustrator, painter, etcher, art teacher and decorator born in England. Resident of Brisbane Clarke was the first etcher in Queensland.
Clarke, Percy
Widely travelled Colonial era painter, sketcher and author.
Clarson, W. A., b. 1852
Painter and scene-painter, resident of Melbourne, Victoria, he exhibited paintings in the 1870s and 1880s. First Secretary of the Art Society of New South Wales, ...
Dibdin, Robert Lowes, b. 1843
The "gentleman artist", Dibdin is considered Rockhampton's first resident painter, also an actor, an estate agent, and a gold buyer. Dibdin was the founding secretary ...
Fogg, Sarah Ann, b. 1829
Sarah Ann Fogg lived variously in Germany, Italy, South Africa and Tasmania and had many opportunities for studying the great Western works of Europe. It ...
Hirst, Charles Gordon Sebastian, b. 1826
CGS Hirst was an itinerant artist who worked in south-eastern Queensland in the decade of the 1870 and produced delightful, naïve renderings largely of farm ...
Lloyd, Henry Grant, b. 1830
A prolific watercolourist painter and sketcher, Lloyd is known as 'Australia's peripatetic artist'. He travelled indefatigably throughout his long life, recording many landscapes in Australia, ...
Lynch, Henrietta, b. 1871
Painter, lived at the Royal Bull's Head Inn, Drayton, near Toowoomba, Queensland, Hettie lived there until she married and, apparently, again as a widow (Mrs ...
Mason, George, b. 1827
English colonial male wood engraver and painter who taught music and set up Brisbane's first theatre. Apart from being bankrupted twice, he advertised as an ...
Neville-Rolfe, Harriet Jane, b. 1850
A painter and sketcher. During her time spent living in central west Queensland, she sketched and painted the bush.
Rielly, Henry, b. 1845
Henry Rielly established his career and reputation in Victoria but his work took on an added signficiance when he came to live in regional Queensland ...
Rivers, Richard Godfrey, b. 1858