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Lauvergne, Barthélemy, b. 1805
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 ...
Lawn, Thomas
Professional photographer, his photographic studio was listed in directories from 1858 to 1868 at Richmond, Victoria, before moving to East Melbourne. Focused on portraiture, and ...
Lawrence, G.
Professional photographer, is listed in the Ballarat Directory for 1862 in Main Road, Ballarat, Victoria.
Lawson, John Downie
Painter, engraver and lithographer. A resident of Melbourne,a lithograph of St John the Evangelist, Toorak produced by him and his business partner John Wesley Pearson ...
Lazenby, George, b. 1807
Cabinetmaker, master builder, lay preacher and civil servant. He was born in 1807. A man with a social conscience Lazenby was Chairman of the Swan ...
Le Souëf, Caroline, b. 1834
Painter and decorative artist, after arriving in Australia her family settled in the Goulburn River Valley where her friendly contact with the local Aboriginal people ...
Leake, Charles Henry, b. 1819
Sketcher, farmer and politician of German descent who resided in Tasmania.
Leake, Georgiana Mary, b.
Watercolourist whose works mainly depict flowers from Western Australia and the Cape of Good Hope. A collection of early photographs and watercolours compiled by her ...
Learmonth, Andrew James, b. 1826
Sketcher and squatter who was born in India and migrated to Australia as a child with his family. Known to have sketched on his property ...
Leck, Robert
Professional photographer. Thought to have been the first photographer to produce cartes-de-visite in Queensland.
Lee, Robert
Painter and professional photographer, showed photographic views of the Heathcote district in Victoria, at the 1866 Melbourne Intercolonial Exhibition. An oil painting in the colonial ...
Lee, W. T., b. 1848
Painter and exhibitor with the Maitland School of Arts, New South Wales in 1861.
Leech, John, b. 1817
Mid 19th century English cartoonist whose work included references to the Australian Gold rush of the 1850s.
Lehman, Christian
Scene-painter and actor, was a member of the celebrated Lehman ballet troupe which visited Australia in 1867. assisted Messrs Pitt and Fry on the Melbourne ...
Leibinger, Carl
Professional photographer, visited Queanbeyan, New South Wales, from 30 March to 10 June 1868 and took portrait photographs from a temporary studio set. He was ...
Leickert,
Painter, had three oil paintings in the 1869 Ballarat Mechanics Institute Exhibition: Winter Scene, with Ruins, Fishing Village - Sunset and On the Yarra Yarra ...
Leighton, Stanley, b. 1837
Barrister, politician and 'an accomplished amateur artist'. Leighton also published several books on the history and archaeology of his native Shropshire, illustrated after his own ...
Lempriere, Clara
Painter. Daughter of Thomas and Charlotte Lempriere. Miss Lempriere studied at the National Gallery of Victoria's painting school under von Guérard.
Lempriere, Maria
Oil painter of St Kilda, Victoria. In 1857 she showed three oil portraits at the first exhibition of the Victorian Society of Fine Arts at ...
Leonard, Frank
Professional photographer of Hobart Town in 1866. He advertised 'life size portraits finished in oils or water'.