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West, E. H.
Watercolour painter and designer, appears to have been in Sydney in the late 1840s when she painted a watercolour, Henrietta Villa, Eliza Point, Rose Bay.
West, John
Professional photographer and publican. West worked in Sydney in 1868.
Weynton, Alexander, b. 1827
Colonial era British watercolourist and master mariner. Made several visits to Australia during his sea voyages.
Wheeler, Joseph
Professional photographer working in Castlemaine, Victoria between 1860 and 1867.
Wherrett, Charles, b. 1832
Professional portrait and landscape photographer working primarily in Hobart, Tasmania. He also worked in Castlemaine and Bendigo, Victoria.
White, James Oliver
Professional photographer working in NSW in the 1860s went to Roma, Queensland in 1868 to set up a studio.
White, John, b. 1851
Training in Melbourne in the 1860s and Edinburgh in the 1870s White's landscape, portrait and genre subject paintings were exhibited at the Royal Academy and ...
White, William
Drawing teacher and architect. He designed St Paul's Church of England at West Maitland that is still in use.
Whitehead, Isaac, b. 1819
Isaac Whitehead was a painter, watercolourist, pastellist, picture-framer and art promoter. He must have come to Victoria with his family in about 1858, according to ...
Whithear,
Watercolour painter who exhibited two landscapes in the Ballarat Mechanics Institute exhibition of 1863.
Wight,
Mrs Wight was a painter without arms or legs, she used her mouth to paint and her shoulder as a guide. Her watercolour 'Portrait of ...
Wild, O.
Colonial engraver whose cityscape of North Adelaide from the footbridge is referred to in the book 'The Bridge over the Ocean', 1973.
Wilder, Joseph Warrin
Male colonial Queensland pioneer tabloid photographer who had a knack for shooting murderers before they had committed their crimes, and a habit of selling copies ...
Wilkinson, Charles
Colonial geologist whose pioneer use of photography to illustrate Victorian rocks may have inspired his son to become a geologist too.
Wilkinson, Jane, b. 1819
Irish colonial female artist who turned from exhibiting her oils, watercolours, pencil and crayon drawings of biblical themes towards teaching. Between 1864 and 1875, she ...
Willett, George, b. 1841
Colonial male photographer who named his studio the Royal Photographic Temple of Light after shooting two princes on tour.
Williams, Florence Elizabeth, b. 1833
Although Florence received little formal training she was exhibiting at the Royal Academy, London, by her late teens. Migrating permanently in 1873, Florence's paintings seem ...
Williams, Frank, b. 1834
Good-looking travelling male in colonial Victoria who may have been more thief than photographer since there are more records of him stealing photographic equipment than ...
Williams, G. A.
Colonial painter, exhibited landscapes at the Ballarat Mechanics Institute exhibition in 1869.
Williams, Henry
Colonial male oil painter, watercolourist and photographer from Hobart Town who painted children and hunters.