Richard Wingfield Stuart, painter, is attributed with an oil on canvas painting inscribed on the stretcher in ink, 'Kangaroo Hunt near Braidwood, New South Wales ...
A painter of still-life and marine subjects who arrived in Melbourne during the gold rush. Before arriving in Australia, Stuart exhibited at various London institutions. ...
Professional photographer, who worked for numerous photographic firms, purchasing his own, the Batchelder firm in 1868, and continuing there until 1889, when he retired.
Despite ill-health and colour-blindness, George Sutherland was the father of eight children and a prolific artmaker. He concentrated more on sketching due to his impairment, ...
Professional photographer, chemist and actor. Arrived in Australia as a gold-digger before settling in New Zealand where he opened the Wellington Ambrotype Portrait Gallery and ...
Colonial photographer and master mariner, awarded a silver medal for his photographs at the Calcutta International Exhibition in 1885. His photographic career included some unusual ...
Late 19th century London and Perth painter and wood engraver. While in London Symmons engraved drawings by Henry French & Fred Barnard - "the Dickens ...
English marine painter who specialised in the subject of ships. While painting and exhibiting extensively in London, a number of works were exhibited in South ...
James Taylor was a professional photographer who emigrated from Scotland to South Australia in 1864. He settled in Gawler, where he operated a photographic studio. ...
Painter, farmer and once a toll-gate keeper, James Edward Taylor migrated with family in 1849 from Plymouth, England, and arrived in South Australia. Lived chiefly ...
The sketcher's 1855 coloured engraving shows an elevated view of Melbourne looking down the Yarra River. The Melbourne Punch satirised it: 'An artist with a ...
During the first decade of the twentieth century Henri Tebbitt was one of the most succesful landscape artists working in Australia. He is best known ...
Lithographer, 1800s, commissioned mainly brewers' show cards and whisky labels, but he did also lithograph all the plates in the three series of Dangerous Snakes ...
Painter and professional photographer, showed artworks in fourth Annual Exhibition of Fine Arts at Melbourne in 1864, and in the Ballarat Mechanics Institute Exhibition, and ...
Elizabeth Testar (née Turner) was a painter and singer. In 1850 she arrived with her husband Thomas in Victoria. Testar became one of Melbourne's principal ...
painter and sculptor, the only woman in any of the Australian colonies known to have modelled large-scale sculptures. She was successful enough to retire on ...