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Griffiths, Thomas
Thomas Griffiths was a travelling photographer. In 1867 he was charged with stealing '2 cameras, 2 lenses, and stands' from Henry Kerr. No arrest, however, ...
Grindell, R.
An itinerant artist or 'gentleman swaggie' who travelled around New South Wales in the 1860s painting watercolours of homesteads and landscape views.
Gritten, Henry, b. 1818
Henry Gritten was a painter and professional photographer. He 'enjoyed the favour of Prince Albert, the Duke of Norfolk and the Marquis of Westminster'. Gritten ...
Grosse, Frederick, b. 1828
Frederick Grosse was an engraver, vigneron and probably professional photographer. Born in Prussia, he came to Melbourne via Adelaide in 1854. Grosse is best known ...
Gunn, John
Sketcher, is attributed with the watercolour Pioneer Graves at Sorrento. A grandson of the convict shipwright Samuel Gunn.
Guy, James, b. 1832
James Guy was a painter, scene-painter and professional photographer. He came to Sydney about 1856. In 1858 with his brother John he opened a photographic ...
Guy, Michael, b. 1840
Michael Stewart Guy was an amateur photographer and seaman. In 1866 he was on a surveying expedition in northern Australia aboard the British survey schooner ...
Habbe, Alexander Christian, b. 1829
Colonial era Danish-born scene-painter, cartoonist and soldier. Habbe's scenes painted for the Christmas pantomimes at the Opera House rivalled those of John Hennings at the ...
Habbe, Nicholas, b. 1827
Painter, was born in Denmark and arrived in Victoria in 1855. He later moved to NSW and painted oil portraits, genre and allegorical subjects in ...
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 ...
Haigh, Edward
Professional photographer, lived and worked in Melbourne 1861-1862. He was a pupil of the celebrated Crimean War photographer Roger Fenton.
Hainsselin, Henry, b. 1820
Painter, engraver, lithographer and photographer, born in England and moved to the Ballarat goldfields in 1853. Taught art in Melbourne in the late 1870s-mid 1880s ...
Hake, Charles
Photographer and surveyor, Charles Hake assited Arthur Hamilton at the Adam Bay settlement, Northern Territory, in 1864-65. Surviving wet-plate photographs include coastline views, the three ...
Hall, Algernon
Professional photographer, worked in Victoria and Queensland taking portraits and views of towns and districts. He photographed the bushranger Daniel 'Mad Dog' Morgan lying dead ...
Hall, E.
Watercolour painter and sketcher, won the prize for watercolour painting at the 1859 exhibition of the South Australian Society of Arts.
Hall, John Vine, b. 1813
Sketcher and master mariner, as captain of various merchant vessels in Australian waters from the 1840s to the 1860s. Hall painted local landscapes and seascapes, ...
Hall, Rebecca Stokes, b. 1810
Sketcher, was married to the master mariner John Vine Hall. Views of Sydney and Bass Strait were made in 1840-41 when aboard her husband's ship.
Hall, Richard John Alexander, b. 1845
Richard Hall was the eldest son of photographer ‘Professor’ Robert Hall and Ruth, nee Smith. He won prizes for the best stereoscopic photographs at the ...
Hall, Robert, b. 1821
Professional photographer, naturalist, ornithologist and publican, known as 'Professor' Hall he was one of Adelaide's leading photographers in the mid 1800s. He ran his own ...
Hall, William
Professional photographer, worked in Melbourne between 1866-1886. He set up his own studio, called the Victorian Portrait Gallery.